Can’t disclose’President’s Approval’… Was there a prosecution’s’significant legal let’?

Senior chief attending the Subo Conference Senior Secretary Shin Hyun-soo, who expressed his appreciation for the conflict over high-ranking prosecutors, returned from vacation on the 22nd and attended a senior advisory meeting held at the Blue House. The right is President Moon Jae-in presiding over the meeting. Newsis-With the return of presidential secretary Shin Hyun-soo to work, a wave of sadness has entered a phase of closure, but the questions surrounding the process of approving the prosecution’s personnel plan by the president, which triggered Shin’s resignation, are still unanswered.

It is pointed out that refusal to disclose the suspicion of “passing the President of Min Jeong,” as well as the suspicion of “passing the president” is raised even though the Blue House can immediately resolve the suspicion if it discloses the process of approving the prosecution plan of President Moon Jae-in. Comes out.

Prosecutors’ personnel, which are conducted at least twice a year, are just one of the President’s daily personnel affairs and are not very confidential matters with national security, so if the Blue House has the will, the approval process can be fully disclosed transparently. If the official approval of President Moon Jae-in was made before the announcement of the Ministry of Justice on the 7th of this month, when the officials were announced at the prosecutor’s level, like any other prosecutor’s office, the situation can be resolved simply by revealing the approval process.

In the current administration, the Blue House has disclosed not only President Moon’s payment method, but also the time of payment by the minute. In April 2019, while visiting Uzbekistan, President Moon electronically approved the appointment of candidates Lee Mi-seon and Hyeong-bae Moon, whose personnel hearing progress reports were not adopted by the National Assembly. On April 19, then President Yoon Do-han, senior secretary for public communication, said, “President Moon approved the appointment of two candidates at 12:40 p.m. (Korean time).” In order to prevent it, the appointment of two constitutional judges was approved through electronic approval in Uzbekistan, which is on a state visit.” However, this time, the Blue House refused to disclose the process of Hansako’s approval, raising doubts about whether there is a situation that cannot be said. The Blue House said that it was not possible to disclose the timing of approval of the prosecution’s personnel plan, and said, “I will not mention the timing of the President’s home. The reason was that it is not appropriate to disclose every detail because the process of the president’s personnel review is an act of government.” Justice Minister Park Beom-gye, who led the high-ranking prosecutors’ officials, also thoroughly dismissed the approval process at the National Assembly’s Legislative Judicial Committee on the 22nd, saying, “I will replace it with the announcement of the Blue House” or “I can’t say it in detail.” The Cheong Wa Dae’s official position on the presidential approval of the prosecution’s proposal so far is that “there was the president’s appropriation,” and “it is not true that it was (announced) without apprehension.” In addition, he asks about key questions such as who received the approval from the President before the announcement of personnel, whether it is in person or electronically, whether it is a normal pre-approval before the personnel announcement, and whether it is a post-approval. It is interpreted that the approval of the president’s direct signing of the personnel plan is a governmental act that takes effect legally, while the homeownership is interpreted as a concept that can include informal approval of the personnel plan in a broader sense, even without direct signing. Unlike other greetings, it is unusual for the Blue House to use the informal term’home family’ instead of the official term’payment’ in this situation. The opposition party, including the power of the people, cannot use the expression “approval” if the president’s face-to-face approval or electronic approval has not been made before the personnel announcement. There is no doubt.

As the Blue House and the Attorney General insist on the approval process for the prosecution’s personnel, the public opinion is now focused on Chief Shin, who knows all the approval process of the prosecution’s personnel as the Blue House Chief Civil Engineer. In spite of the Blue House’s official denial, “Senior Shin thought of this process as a’prosecutor’s case’,” from legal officials close to Chief Shin. In light of the message, it is also possible that Shin has confirmed serious procedural and legal defects in a series of processes surrounding senior prosecutors’ officials.

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