Deputies shoot down SDPL's proposal for Parliament to work through summer

Polish Social Democracy (SDPL) deputies have suggested that the Sejm skip its summer holiday due to the legislative backlog, but the proposal met with the sneers of other deputies. The SDPL wrote a letter to the Sejm Speaker, saying that many important laws need to be passed, associated with the reform of health care, public finances, etc. "This is a new high in hypocrisy. First the government purposely delays work on the health service bill and now we have a call to skip holidays," ridiculed Bronisław Komorowski from the Civic Platform (PO). Roman Giertych from the Polish Families League (LPR) had the most radical response, "This Sejm should take a permanent vacation. It is messing up the law so horrendously, that any break will be a relief." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) T.J.