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On the 24th, the Justice Party ruled on the “ineligible” party’s argument against candidate Byeon Chang-heum for the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation. Representative Shim Sang-jeong, the sole member of the Land and Transportation Committee of the National Assembly, said in the morning at the party’s standing committee: “The Justice Party synthesized the hearing process and the will of the people, and decided that candidate Byeon was not eligible. ”
Earlier, candidate Byun said: “If I only care a little about the incident, Kim Mo (then 19 years old), a non-regular worker who worked at Guui station in 2016, when he was president of the Urban and Housing Corporation from Seoul (SH), was hit by a train while repairing a platform door. There was no work. He was controversial when he said that he died due to the error of a company employee. He apologized at the staff hearing the day before (23), but repeated the existing explanation that “At the time, I was too focused on construction.”
The candidate for Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Byeon Chang-heum, is drinking water during the audience of the National Assembly staff on the 23rd. Candidate Byun was resentful when he said he was “dead by mistake” over Kim Mo (then 19 years old), who died in a screen door accident at Guui Station as SH president in 2016. Center photo
In this regard, Representative Shim said: “It is difficult to say that his comments that caused public resentment were simply a mistake. The low awareness of the candidate’s life and safety and the lack of sensitivity towards human rights at work, revealed through a series of comments, goes against the spirit of the time and deviates greatly from the sentiment of the people. . The Executive Director of the Justice Party, Kim Jong-cheol, also said on Facebook the same day: “Candidate Byun’s perception that his specialty was different is the wrong answer. “It is because the construction site is the place where the most serious disasters occur, and the person who should be in charge of the site is the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport,” he said. “Even if you have a good housing policy, ‘the fault of the worker is the main cause of serious disasters.’ If you think about it, you are not eligible as a minister. ”
The Justice Party, however, did not explicitly demand that candidate Byeon resign or withdraw the nomination of President Moon Jae-in. “I hope that the Moon Jae-in administration will listen to the voices of the people about this candidate Byeon, reexamine the philosophy of the state administration and use it as an opportunity to innovate” (Sim Sang-jung). In a phone call with JoongAng Ilbo on the day, “If you have any decision-making authority, you can say that party, but since it is not, I only spoke about the party’s position that it was deemed ineligible as a result of the hearing.” . It is not like this? More than that, it is up to President Moon or the candidate himself to judge. ”
Justice Party lawmaker Shim Sang-jeong (right) at the party’s standing committee held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the morning of the 24th, reveals the party’s ineligible argument against candidate Byeon Chang-heum of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. On the left is Kim Jong-cheol, chairman of the Justice Party. Yunhap news
The resurgence of the so-called “ death note ”, which the Justice Party stigmatizes candidates for high-ranking officials as ineligible, was only 1 year and 9 months after the candidates for Minister Cho Dong-ho (Ministry of Information and Communication of Science and Technology) and Choi Jung-ho (Ministry of Lands) last March. All. After the inauguration of the Moon Jae-in government, the candidates Ahn Kyung-hwan (Ministry of Justice), Cho Dae-yeop (Ministry of Employment and Labor) and Park Seong-jin (Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises) have fallen amid opposition from the Justice Party. At the time of the appointment of former Justice Minister Cho Kook in September last year, he had to suffer side effects such as the withdrawal of the party member for a time, as he kept silent despite various suspicions of misconduct by the family. by Cho.
It is unclear if the Justice Party Death Note will go into effect again. The Democratic Party is ready to enforce Byeon’s appointment. Democratic Party lawmaker Park Sang-hyuk of the National Land Commission said at the party’s policy coordination meeting that morning: “The opposition party’s request for the voluntary resignation of candidate Byun or the withdrawal of the nomination is nothing more than a suffocation of state affairs. ” Democratic Party lawmaker Jin Seong-joon of the National Land Commission also insisted in a radio interview on the same day that “there is no question about candidate Byun’s ability, but all opposition lawmakers agree. agreement”.
Reporter Ha Jun-ho [email protected]
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