"The uncovering and investigation of this scandal shows that Croatia has decided to come to grips with corruption, and regardless of the political interpretations of the case, this is the first time the entire public wholeheartedly supports an operation of this kind," Cehok said.
The HSLS believes that people sitting on the management board of the HFP are morally responsible, but one also needs to raise the issue of organisational failure, Cehok said.
"We will request from the prime minister the urgent reorganisation of the entire insitution, to prevent people holding important state and political positions from sitting on several supervisory boards," he said.
Davor Stern, the HSLS's advisor on the economy, said that the HFP should be transformed into a company, that government ministers should be removed from its supervisory board, but that the HFP should be headed by a parliamentary body comprised of different political parties.
The Peasant Party (HSS) today fully supported the operation "Maestro" of the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) and police, but added that people in charge of management and supervision in the HFP should assume political responsibility for the scandal.
The party believes that the scandal proved that the HSS was right to propose that ministers and other officials be removed from the supervisory boards of state-run companies.
The party considers the announced integration of the HFP with the Central Office for the Management of State Property a "cosmetic change" and advocates entrusting the management of state property to an entirely new agency.
The HSS also urged stopping all privatisation processes because they had been prepared by the people who were now under investigation.