The president will address the deputies of the Saeima going on summer holidays. The next session will begin a month before the elections to the new parliament.
So, tomorrow the deputies of the Saeima will gather for the last plenary session before the summer holidays. However, some ruling politicians are "threatening" their colleagues with work even in the height of summer - within the framework of extraordinary plenary sessions and meetings of Saeima committees, but gathering the servants of the people in the hot summer to ensure a quorum will not be so easy. In any case, as is tradition, tomorrow at the last meeting of the spring session, President Edgars Rinkēvičs will address the parliamentarians. It is obvious that he will remind them of the pressing issues facing the parliament and the government that need to be resolved regardless of the summer holidays and the election campaign.
As for the agenda of tomorrow's plenary session, the deputies plan to urgently adopt amendments to the law so that the government can appoint the director of the State Chancellery without a competition. Currently, the law requires that a competition be held for this position, which became vacant after the removal and departure from public service of Raivis Kronbergs. This process may not conclude until the powers of the Kulbergs government have ended! The new prime minister needs a full-fledged head of the State Chancellery now!
Also on the agenda is the opposition's initiative to reduce VAT to 5% on food for infants. Meanwhile, the opposition faction "Progressives" has submitted a request regarding the circumstances of the state's purchase of shares from Swedish shareholders in the telecommunications companies LMT and Tet.
The Saeima will also adopt a statement prepared by the Foreign Affairs Committee in connection with the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara.
In the final reading tomorrow, the Saeima will make a decision on amendments to the Criminal Law, which provide for stricter criminal liability for criminal acts committed using mobile devices in airspace, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, meteorological probes, balloons, and others.
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