To summarize the actions of President Moon Jae-in and Democratic Party representative Lee Nak-yeon at the beginning of the year, it is a preview of the cessation of reform.
Representative Lee announced that he would propose amnesty to President Moon on the first day of the new year, and said he had no prior rapport with President Moon. Nevertheless, Kim Jong-in, chairman of the People’s Strength Emergency Response Committee, estimated on the 4th that “I think there was a rapport with the Blue House in advance.” This is a common-sense reasoning that the right to amnesty is the presidential authority, and that it would have been discussed with the president, but it also means that the Blue House and the Democratic Party have recently taken similar steps.
In contrast to Chairman Kim Jong-in’s apology for the crimes of the two former presidents last month, Lee’s suggestion for pardon seems to go against the trend of the times. Yeouido Research Institute Director Ji-wook Ji said in the Seoul newspaper on December 17 last year that “Chairman Kim’s innovation is to regain the’home rabbit’,” said Kim’s apology that opened the way to rebuild and expand the party. Director Ji heard based on data on the defeat of the people’s power in the recent election.
In addition, Lee’s suggestion for pardon is difficult to understand, even though he is in a situation where he is being asked to resign from the beginning of the year from inside and outside the party.
However, it can be interpreted by looking at the background in which the claim of amnesty was drawn rather than whether or not to have prior rapport with President Moon. Representative Lee suggested pardon and cited’national integration’ as the reason. Democratic Party lawmaker Seol-hun said on CBS’Kim Hyun-jung’s News Show’ on the 4th, “It’s focused on integration” after the pardon assertion, “You have to look at the situation calmly while the party members are angry.” did.
This means that amnesty is not the purpose, but the focus is on national integration. In his New Year’s speech, CEO Lee emphasized national integration, saying, “I will alleviate social conflicts and achieve national integration.”
The words omitted here can be interpreted as’I will put the brake on reform’. In fact, reforms are accompanied by resistance from existing vested interests, and politically, the opposition party faces an offensive.
‘At the end of the regime, the engine for reform will be low, so reforms must be spurred from the beginning.’ In fact, at the beginning of the last year of the regime, the ruling party’s arrow keys were turned to the right.
This becomes clear from the end of the year when the High-ranking Airborne Criminal Investigation Office (KAI) law was passed and the severe disaster corporate punishment law was crushed. In his New Year’s speech, CEO Lee also said, “I will save people’s lives with an active role in finance” and “I will help companies and make a new leap forward in the economy.” It seems as though the labor and business world remained at the National Assembly over the Severe Disaster Act, and the business world openly raised the hand. The pardon proposal itself is also controversial, but it is even more criticizing that the ruling party’s representative, who is well over the majority, sent a signal that the power of the reform will be removed.
As Lee argued, even if there was no rapport with President Moon regarding the amnesty, Lee and the Blue House’U-Click’ seemed to be similar as promised. It appears in President Moon’s first steps in the new year and the reshuffle at the end of the year.
On the first day of the new year, President Moon checked his military readiness and made a command flight, and the Blue House spokesman Kang Min-seok mentioned “strong security”. The politician’s visit to the military is an official schedule to appeal to the middle and conservative. I couldn’t see the president in solidarity with medical staff suffering from corona or those struggling on the streets in the cold winter, and it is a clear difference from the appearance of the warm president who started the New Year’s first schedule with the social righteous for the past three years.
The reorganization is also a signal that tells the direction of the new year’s government administration.
Kim Jin-wook, a former senior researcher at the Constitutional Court, who was nominated as a candidate for the Minister of Public Transport at the end of the year, and Shin Hyun-soo, a senior at the Blue House, are both former lawyers, Kim & Chang, the largest law firm in Korea. It is a figure with criticisms such as’Can’t you escape from Kim & Chang’s influence?’ and’The current government can’t break the link of political law’. In particular, attorney Shin Hyun-soo is a senior civil prosecutor who is also the current government’s current stance.
The secretary’s chief executive reveals this atmosphere of the current government outright. New President Yoo Young-min, who was appointed at the end of the year, is a former executive vice president of LG CNS. It is connected with the words of CEO Nak-Yeon Lee’s New Year’s speech, “I will help companies and make a new leap forward in the economy.”
The background of the cessation of reform can be easily estimated. This is the reason why government prosecution confusion and social fatigue grew in the process of reforming the prosecution, symbolizing the passage of amendments to the Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol and the passage of amendments to the Airlift Act, as commented by many media and celebrities.
However, it is necessary to express the position of the president and ruling party representatives whether the prosecution reform was the top priority of the candlelight citizens, whether it is possible to ignore other reform requests pushed down by the prosecution reform, whether the meaning of the ruling party’s overwhelming victory during the candlelight and last general elections is what it is now. .
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