The Polish Lower House - Sejm gathers for a two-day assembly on Thursday.
MPs will put more than 200 amendments to the 2008 budget to a vote, although the parliamentary finance committee has expressed negative opinions on the majority of the proposed changes.
During the previous session of the Sejm, the finance committee managed to save 3.5 billion zlotys in taxpayers’ money, which will be spent on pay rises for teachers and lowering the state deficit.
MPs also cut the annual budgets of the Polish president and prime minister by 8 million zlotys each, as well as the Sejm and Senate Chancelleries by 24 and 2.5 million zlotys respectively.
On Wednesday, the finance committee decided to reduce the cuts in the budgets of the Supreme Chamber of Control (NIK) and the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) by 15 million zlotys compared with the previous plans.
MPs will also work on draft acts on the EU reforming treaty and on Poland’s accession to the Schengen borderless zone.
It is likely that members of the committee to investigate former construction minister and SLD MP Barbara Blida’s suicide will finally be appointed.
The ruling Civic Platform’s MPs have also included in the agenda a motion to establish another investigative committee to look into the circumstances of "political pressure" put on the special services - the Internal Security Agency (ABW) and Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA), as well as the police. (mj)