Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandrokovic said on Friday that "some kind of solution" should be found to enable MPs who were not re-elected to get employment, so that there is no need for the state to pay them a full salary for six months and then half of a salary for another six months.

“That is the law. First we need to see how to overcome the situation in which they are practically forbidden to work for a year, all those who should take up a management position in the private and even public sector do not have a right to do it,” Jandrokovic said, commenting on the fact that 38 former MPs have opted for the six plus six model and therefore they are still receiving a salary which they were paid as parliamentary deputies.

That is a very embarrassing situation in which someone practically cannot work for a year and is financed by the government, so a solution should be found to allow people to work so there would be no need for the six plus six model, Parliament Speaker told reporters ahead of session in which the parliament should pass the law on the post-earthquake reconstruction of Zagreb.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said that the model must be connected to the Act on Preventing the Conflict of interest, noting that it existed because those people cannot take up duties which would be contrary to that law. If we decide to make changes, we must change both, he said.

He said that people opt for the six plus six model when they believe taking a particular job would not be an adequate possibility, adding that such solution exist everywhere.