Material photo” alt=”Im Jong-seok, former head of the Blue House Secretary. <한겨레> Material photo” />
Jong-seok Lim, former head of the Blue House Secretary. Material photo
For the auditing of the government’s “energy conversion policy”, the former presidential secretary chief Lim Jong-seok harshly criticized the chief auditor of Auditor Choi Jae-hyung. On the 14th, Im Jeon said on Facebook on the 14th, “After Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, the Auditor General Choi Jae-hyung is surpassing the degree.” The audit of the Board of Audit and Inspection is considered inappropriate in many ways. Above all, it is difficult to understand the purpose of audit. The Board of Audit and Inspection said that it would look into whether it is illegal for the government to reflect the’post-nuclear power plant policy’ in the 2017 basic electricity supply and demand plan while leaving the basic energy plan established in 2014. Although the basic energy plan is a higher level than the basic electricity supply and demand plan, it is an administrative plan with a non-binding guideline. There is also a Supreme Court precedent that it is not illegal to modify the lower plan prior to the higher plan. Nevertheless, Mr. Lim’s remarks are more of a personal attack than a rational criticism. He said to Director Choi, “I guarantee the term of office, so I politicize with a shield.” It sounds like it denies the independence of the auditor. This is something the former presidential secretary should not say. It is not that we cannot understand the backlash of the passport against Director Choi or the auditor. However, criticism should be made logically based on facts. Not only does the emotional response help to solve the problem, it only calls for unnecessary political battles. Immediately, Ho-young Joo, the National Powers, counterattacked, saying, “I am worried about how far the distorted democracy around the President will destroy Korea.” The essence of the question of whether audit is appropriate or not is disappearing and flowing into exhausting controversy. Even during the’Chumi-ae-Yun Seok-yeol conflict’, excessive remarks by some of the passport officials had side effects that obscure the purpose of the prosecution reform, but it seems that they still haven’t learned any lessons.