The eight parties will meet informally at 9am on Wednesday May 6th according to the parliamentary speaker's press office, as first reported by public radio Sveriges Radio Ekot.
The meeting comes a week after an opposition bid to add transitional rules to the government's citizenship bill failed, sparking a heated debate over Sweden's pairing-off system, kvittning.
According to kvittning, parties agree to hold back MPs from voting to balance out MPs from the opposing side who are sick or who have other engagements.
But as The Local was first to report, the Sweden Democrats shattered the decades-old agreement when they sent in two MPs, who had agreed to be absent, to vote down the opposition proposal at the last second.
If they had not done that, the bid for transitional rules would have passed, with two former Sweden-Democrats-turned-independents siding with the opposition.
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The day after the controversy, the group leaders of the seven other parliamentary parties held a meeting without the Sweden Democrats.
Several of them, including Mattias Karlsson of the ruling Moderate Party – whose coalition government relies on the support of the Sweden Democrats – stated that the pairing system had effectively been put out of play.
As a result, at the next major vote in parliament, also on May 6th, all 349 MPs will have to be present in the chamber.
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