In the petition for impeachment and removal of Chu Mi-ae, “Maintain opinion on the state administration”

On the 11th, the Blue House presented an early position on the 11th, in response to a national petition calling for the impeachment and removal of Justice Minister Chu Miae.

In response, Kang Jeong-soo, director of the Center for Digital Communication, said via Blue House Social Live that day, “the government will work harder for the lives and safety of the people.”

According to the National Bulletin of Petitions of the Blue House, the petition published on July 14 under the title of ‘indictment of Minister Chu Mi-ae’ agreed in one month with 219,069 people, meeting the response criteria of the Blue House. Likewise, on the 23rd of the same month, a petition article entitled “Petition for the dismissal of Minister Chu Mi-ae” was published, which also had the consent of 245,560 people.

The two petitions were published at the time of the conflict between the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor’s Office. The petitioners urged the Minister of Justice to dismiss and accuse the Minister of Justice, noting the greetings of the prosecution, the exercise of the investigative command and the quarantine measures against certain religious groups. The head of the center, Kang, continued to refute the petitioners’ allegations. However, he did not comment on the allegations of military service privileges for Minister Chu’s son. Regarding the petitioner’s criticism that “the Minister of Justice acted as retaliatory personnel”, the Director of the Kang Center said: “In January 2020, the prosecution staff focused on the prosecution of human rights, the public welfare and the rule of law in accordance with the promulgation, amendment and restructuring of the Law on Reform of the Prosecutor’s Office. It was done to support job performance, “he said.” In August of the same year, staff was made to reflect organizational reorganizations such as the reduction of direct investigation departments and the strengthening of criminal and court departments following the reform of the research rights ”.

With regard to the point that the “ Minister of Justice is exercising unreasonable investigative command power ”, it is inevitable that the acting prosecutor, who is the closest assistant to the Attorney General in the case of suspicion of the attorney general of prosecutors, be the subject of the investigation, and concerns have been raised against the attorney general that he will undermine the fairness of the investigation. Justice Minister Hae Hae corrected this through investigation and command, ”he said.

The Director of the Prosecutor’s Office said: “The authority of the Minister of Justice to direct and supervise is granted to guarantee the independence of the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office, but to guarantee the impartiality of the exercise of the prosecution power by the Minister responsible for the Assembly. National as the highest supervisor of the affairs of the prosecution. “The minimum democratic checks received”.

Furthermore, regarding the petitioner’s claim that ‘the Minister of Justice is putting the responsibility for quarantine on certain religious groups, etc.’, he said: “In the early days of the spread of Corona 19, there were hundreds of new daily confirmed cases in Daegu and Gyeongbuk. In order to overcome the urgent situation, he instructed the prosecution to respond to actions that hinder quarantine activities or disrupt the distribution of health care products, such as masks, in close cooperation with related agencies to investigate and respond quickly and intensively ”.

On the other hand, the impeachment proposal against Minister Chu, initiated by the Future Integration Party, went to a plenary session of the National Assembly in July, but was rejected with 109 in favor, 179 against and 4 void of the 292 present. . The proposal for impeachment of the member of the Council of State is decided by the motion of more than one third of the registered members and the majority of the registered members.