The party introduced the topic at a parliamentary plenary last week, and now seeks to broaden the debate, making an "urgent request" for participation by Austria's Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP).
Under parliamentary rules, the Freedom Party is entitled to convene two special sessions per year. The session is to be held under the rubric "Safety instead of Islamization and Asylum Chaos."
The meeting will likely take place within the next eight working days, according to a report in the news daily Heute.
FPÖ Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache warned in a plenary meeting last Wednesday that "the threat from Islamism was more evident than ever."
He added that the danger came not just from the terrorist militia Isis in the Middle East, but also from "Isis terrorists disguised as refugees travelling to Austria", and said that "asylum seekers from Austria travel to the crisis region and fight there."
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