What Parliament decided, and who voted how.

Each bill shows a plain-language summary of a couple of sentences, a description of the most important change and its practical significance, and the actual proposed law text. Titles are written to reflect the outcome (for example “Easing the construction of nuclear power”), with the official name shown below them.

All documents, votes and seating are fetched from Parliament's open data interface. The archive covers government bills voted on in plenary since 2015 and updates automatically every hour. The original documents are always available on Parliament's own site, and every bill page links to them and to the division's minutes.

Parliament often votes on the same bill several times. The first reading decides the content of the act section by section, and the second reading decides on passing or rejecting the act as a whole. Istuntosali highlights this latter, decisive vote and shows the interim stages separately. A passed act enters into force only once the President of the Republic has confirmed it.

A group's position means the parliamentary group's majority in the same vote, when at least three of the group's members voted yes or no. An MP is considered to have voted against their group when their yes or no vote differed from this majority. Empty votes and absences do not affect the count. The government–opposition split is based on the government coalition on the day of each vote.

The plain-language summaries and titles are produced by a language model directly from the bill's official text. It is instructed to stay neutral and rely only on the bill's content, but the texts can still contain errors or differences in emphasis. The summaries are not official documents or legal advice. Always check the details in the original bill.

Budget bills do not have an explanatory section in the same form, so their descriptions are written by hand and are not marked as AI-generated.

The main points of debate are compiled the same way from the plenary minutes: what was debated and what each parliamentary group argued in its speeches. A group's position is therefore read from the speeches, not from the vote, and can differ from it. Every quotation is checked mechanically against the minutes, and only quotes found verbatim are shown. The speeches themselves are always the minutes' unedited text.

The party compass is not based on MPs' promises but on their actual votes. Its questions are drawn from this term's contested decisive votes, and your answers are compared against every sitting MP's and group's votes. The chamber map fills in as you answer. It is not an election compass, since it includes only sitting MPs, not candidates. Your answers are saved only in your own browser.

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