Rejected the request for resignation? Mystery of the disappearance of Chu Miae’s resignation

On the 20th day after the Blue House said that Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae expressed his appreciation on the 16th of last month, doubts are spreading as it did not reveal whether the official resignation was accepted. In the passport, contrary to the announcement of the Blue House, in reality, there are speculation that Chu did not submit a resignation letter, and that the candidate for Justice Minister Park Bum-gye is aiming to return in case of a fall.

Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae attends the 6th meeting of the Candidate Recommendation Committee held at the National Assembly of Yeouido, Seoul on the 28th of last month.[뉴스1]

According to the JoongAng Ilbo coverage on the 6th, Minister Chu was advised to express his gratitude to President Moon Jae-in on the 16th of last month, who entered the Blue House to receive’two months disciplinary punishment for prosecutor general Yoon Seok-yeol’. Political circles even said, “President Moon pushed him out of the interview to make his own speech, saying,’Go to the Chun-Chu-gwan.’ It means that there was no expression or submission of resignation.

However, the official position announced by the Blue House was different. Cheong Man-ho, chief of public communication at the Blue House, announced at a briefing on the same evening that “President Moon will highly value Minister Chu’s expression of his gratitude and expression of his move and will consider whether to accept it,” and that Minister Chu expressed his gratitude first. A high-ranking official at the Blue House even explained the background of the company’s expression, saying, “It is believed that Minister Chu has completed the reform and has fulfilled his duties.”

Even after looking at Minister Chu’s actions at the time, there was no intention of withdrawing. Just four hours before the Blue House’s announcement of “The Declaration of Death”, he showed a willingness to “complete the reform of the prosecution” at a briefing of relevant ministries related to the ‘3 Act on Reform of Powered Institutions’. “As the Minister of Justice, the highest supervisor of the prosecution’s affairs, I promise to do my best to fulfill the vocation of the prosecution reform that has not been resolved for a long time, and to make the prosecution a fair organization trusted by the people.” I became weak.

Accordingly, in the legal profession, “it is safe to assume that Minister Chu was virtually scorned” began to circulate. The Cheong Wa Dae said that Minister Chu expressed his appreciation, but it was said that Minister Chu was supposed to go to the press room of the Blue House to express his gratitude.

President Moon Jae-in salutes the national flag at a State Council meeting held at the Blue House on the morning of the 5th. [청와대사진기자단]

From the next day, the Blue House and Passport started referring to the word’resignation repair’ with Minister Chu. In the passport, “If a disciplinary decision is made against President Yoon of the Blue House, we have established a policy to immediately resign,” said So Byung-cheol, a Democratic Party member, and Lee Yong-gu, vice minister of the Justice Ministry as successor candidates. .

Then, some prosecutors said, “The Blue House has reached a point where it has no choice but to press the press to retire from Minister Chu.” At the same time as Minister Chu and pressuring General Yoon’s resignation, unlike the Minister of Justice, there was no sharp point of resigning the prosecutor general, who had a two-year term in office.

Eventually, when President Moon nominated Park Bum-gye as the successor to the Justice Minister as the successor to the Justice Minister on the 30th of last month, there was no announcement of the acceptance of the resignation. At the time, a high-ranking official said, “Because the successor has been announced,” he said, “I will do my last duty until Park is appointed through a hearing.”

However, following the suspicion of a taxi driver’s assault by Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu, the outbreak of the Corona 19 outbreak in the Eastern Detention Center in Seoul has resulted in a situation in which Minister Chu, who had been holding his seat, was accused. Regarding this, the prosecution officer pointed out that “the criticism of the controversy that the Ministry of Justice is putting a great burden on the Blue House is concentrated on Minister Chu,” and pointed out that “Minister Chu will regret that he did not express the company early.

There was also an interpretation that over the mystery of the disappearance of Minister Chu’s resignation, the Blue House is always preparing to return to the 16th of last month. A national petition requesting President Moon to re-confidence with Minister Chu began on the 17th of last month and has received more than 410,000 consents until this day. An official from the legal profession analyzed, “Although the Blue House rejected the hand of Minister Chu, it has no choice but to be conscious of the core supporters of pro-friendship, and will not completely throw away the card of leaving Minister Chu even in case the candidate Park Bum-gye falls out.”

Reporter Jung Yujin [email protected]