The Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) has collected 75,000 signatures for its proposal to exempt employers from paying taxes and contributions for the salaries of first-time employees for a period of one year from their employment, party leader Darinko Kosor said on Tuesday presenting the results of the party's ten-day campaign.
Kosor said that the list with citizens' signatures would be submitted to the government on Wednesday.
We want to help the government to make, in the next seven months - which is roughly the time it has before parliamentary elections - some concrete moves which probably will not solve all economic problems, but which can solve the problem of unemployment among young people, said Kosor.
Speaking of a forthcoming parliamentary debate on amendments to the law on the entitlements and obligations of parliamentary deputies, Kosor said his party proposed that members of Parliament retire at 65.
"I don't see why members of Parliament would retire at 50 or 55 as is the case now, or at 60, which is what the ruling coalition has proposed," Kosor said.
