The initiative was launched by the Green Party on the Social Insurance Committee, but it is backed by the rest of the opposition as well, including the Social Democrats, who are Sweden's largest opposition party (and largest party).
The committee met on May 7th to discuss the initiative, as well as the other items on its agenda.
But the meeting ended with the decision being postponed, pending the separate ongoing group leader discussions, the group leader of the Left Party, Samuel Gonzalez Westling, confirmed to The Local.
Group leaders aren't the same as party leaders. They are their party's top representatives in parliament and are in charge of managing much of the parties' day-to-day parliamentary work, in consultation with the speaker and the other group leaders.
'Total deadlock' as group leaders discuss failure of pairing system
The group leaders also met on May 7th, to discuss the chaos sparked when the far-right Sweden Democrats defeated the opposition on April 29th by sending two MPs to vote whom they had promised to withhold, as The Local was first to report.
Because of the additional MPs, the opposition's bid to add transitional rules to the government's citizenship bill failed, when it otherwise had a majority in parliament and would have succeeded.
The Sweden Democrats' decision to let the two MPs vote shattered the parliament's long-standing pairing system, called kvittning, under which 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 nothing emerged from the meeting of the group leaders either, with several of them telling reporters that a solution appears to be a long way off.
"It is a total deadlock. When not even the Moderates and Christian Democrats can acknowledge that the Sweden Democrats broke the agreement, we remain very far apart in our description of reality and our view of what a contract means," the Green Party's Annika Hirvonen told the TT newswire.
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