It is expected that Siv Fridleifsdottir parliamentarian of the progressive party, speaks for a bill regarding ministers to step down from Althingi while they are in ministerial office.

Siv set the bill forward as well as other parliamentarians from the progressive party, independence party and popular front party. It has been served five times before. In a report with the bill says that it is intended to sharpen the three parts of the government.

The parties of the labor market are criticizing the government for their lack of actions and ask if the government has forgotten the stability pact about reconstructing the economy which was signed in June. The profession labor iterates that the pact had not been "signed just for fun".

Gylfi Arnbjornsson chairman of ASI says that it is clear that after the stability pact was finalized had the parliament only been busy with one case - Icesave.

It says in a legal report which was prepared by the international law firm of Ashurt LLP that the conditions of the loan which British authorities and Dutch authoritities granted the Icelandic state because of the Savings Banks' Deposit Protection Fund and investors (TIF) are compatable with what is customary internationally.

Gylfi Magnússon, minister of commerce, says in a article in the Morgunblaðið today that Icelanders can live up to their agreements because of Icesve and it would be a blunder to endanger the resurrection of Iceland and all communications with the outside world by denying to own up to their responsabilities.

The letter writing of Svavar Gestsson and Gary Roberts, chairman of the british Icesave-negotiation committee, give a clear picture of the thoughness that the British applied in the conclusion of the contract, The bill for the governments guarantee for the Icesave committments was presented in Althing yesterday.

Árni M. Mathiesen, then minister of finance, was on the defence in the meeting of finance ministers of the EU and EFTA states in Brussels at the beginning of November last year, where arbitration was decided to define Icelands committments because of the Icesave-account.

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir PM and Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, minister of finance and Gylfi Magnússon minister of commerce presented the bill for the goverments guarantees for the Iceasave agreements to reporters today. In it it asks that Althing assing the minister of finance permission to undertake loans for the Savings Banks' Deposit Protection Fund for the Icesve accounts.

The government says that it has taken care of 32 of the 48 issues that were on their 100 day list in the 50 days that have passed since they took over. That is equal to 2/3 of their project list being fulfilled.

Big currency loans that the government borrowed in 2006 and 2008 are due in 2011. That debt amounts to 200 billion króna but the loans were taken at that time to strengthen the currency reserve.

Steingrímur J. Sigurðsson, minister of finance, says he is more worried about the ongoing wrestle, resurrecting the icelandic jobmarket and the economy than the Icesave committments.

Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, minister of finance, said in a town meeting in Iðnó tonight, that it wouldn't be the Icesave commitments that would bring the nation to it's knewws if worst came to worst. 'There are other more obvious things that are more dangerous to us,' said Steingrímur.

 Steingrímur J. Sigfússon minister of finance propoces up to a 4 billion króna raise on alcohol and tobaccocharges in the coming months. The minister says in a report regarding plans to balance the state treasury for 2009-2013 that a raise in alcoholcharge could be 30-40%  and tobaccocharges 30-40% in two stages this year and the next. Alcohol- and tobaccocharges were raised by 15% last May.

'The stability agreement revolves around tax increases and a continuing weak króna,' says Bjarni Benediktsson, president of the Indipendance party in Althing.

Guðbjartur Hannesson, congressman for the Popular front said that the stability agreement is a satisfying step, it is invaluble that such a widespread agreement had been reached.

It's no exageration to say that alot has gone on between members of the economy and the government in the events leading to the agreement that was signed late the night before last about the stability agreement which has been on the agenda, with the participation of the communes, for the last weeks.

If anyone has had their hopes up that the stability agreement would bring about lower interest rates as soon as in the next weeks and that the rate of the króna would strengthen, one would be disapointed. The turn around could happen though in the last months of this year.