The court also saved Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. The 12th administrative division of the Seoul Administrative Court (Presiding Justice Hong Soon-wook) said on the 24th, “The two-month suspension of the President’s disposition against Yun on the 16th is from the date of the judgment of the sub-case for the cancellation of disciplinary disposition of this court until the 30th day. It will stop its effect.”
Accordingly, President Yoon returned to work 8 days after his job was suspended. Following the suspension of the exclusion of duties on the 1st, the court also raised the hand of President Yoon. It is expected that it will take several months before the conclusion of the main lawsuit over the cancellation of disciplinary action, but since the remaining tenure of President Yoon is about seven months, there is a high possibility that this decision will stably fill the term of office.
On the 25th, the morning groups all saw that it was President Yoon’s victory, and reported that there would be a political blow to President Moon Jae-in, who granted discipline. Analysis also suggested that Lame Duck will accelerate at the end of the presidential term. There were several newspapers with similar headlines for the top article on the front page.
Kyunghyang Shinmun “The court overturned the discipline of’President Moon’s home’ Yoon Seok-yeol”
The Dong-A Ilbo “Return to 尹… President Wen’s discipline, the court overturned”
Segye Ilbo “Suk-yeol Yoon returns to work… The presidential decision court overturned.”
Chosun Ilbo “Suk-yeol Yoon returns… The court overturned the presidential decision.”
JoongAng Ilbo “President Moon’s Discipline for Yoon Seok-yeol, Court Overturned”
The Hankyoreh “Suk-yeol Yoon returns to President again… Court effectively cancels disciplinary action”
Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae, who enforced the discipline of General Yoon, was also a hard claim. In an editorial, the Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “The Blue House has argued that the disciplinary action of President Yoon is not the will of President Moon, but only reapproving the disciplinary action requested by Minister Chu, but the ultimate responsibility is the President Moon’s responsibility.” “President Moon must immediately curse Minister Chu, who pushed for unreasonable discipline,” he wrote.
The Chosun Ilbo focused on the criticism of the president. On page 3 of this paper, “Chu Mi-ae tries to drive out Yoon Seok-yeol… In an article titled “President Wen in the Lame Duck Crisis,” he said, “In the passport, this court decision would have a major blow to President Moon’s personnel rights, and there were concerns that it would lead to the acceleration of the lame duck at the end of the term, which would put a great burden on the administration of the government” . The Dong-A Ilbo also mentioned’Lame Duck’ in the article on page 4. The editorial title of the Chosun Ilbo on this day was “The ruling of the return of President Yoon is the judgment of the law on the texts”
The Blue House announced that there was no announcement of its position late on the 24th when the court decision was made. Many newspapers interpreted this as a shock to the Blue House by the court decision. The Chosun Ilbo reported, “As President Yoon is expected to return to his office immediately and speed up the’investigation of living power’, he has to bear the burden of that.”
The Chosun Ilbo said in the article that the purpose of the prosecution reform had faded. The newspaper said, “The reform of the prosecution, which has been transformed into’printing Yun Seok-yeol’, is likely to lose a lot of power.” “The meaning of the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation agency that President Moon emphasized the launch of the new year and the ruling party pushed for revision of the law. It is said that it will also fade.”
As a result of the court decision, the current government’s mistakes were emphasized in the media, and in the politics, mixed positions were expressed according to the interests of the opposition parties.
The power of the people expressed Yun’s return as a “precious Christmas gift”. On the 24th, spokesman Bae Jun-young of People’s Strength said, “The court’s judgment prevented the provocation of’prosecution’s transformation’ in the form of’prosecution reform’. It’s like a Christmas gift that gives relief that we are completely in the legal order.” “The night before Christmas, the Republic of Korea confirmed that the rule of law was not dead,” said all the members of the Power of the People’s Law and Justice Judiciary at the briefing. “The Korean people received a valuable Christmas gift.”
The Justice Party held a position that it respected the court decision. Jeong Ho-jin, chief spokesman for Justice Party, said, “It seems that raising issues about procedural legitimacy has greatly contributed to the judgment of the court.” “There may be disagreements, but it is reasonable to respect and follow the results as much as the court decision came out. I said.
On the other hand, the ruling party criticized the ruling. Choi In-ho, the chief spokesman of the Democratic Party, said on the day, “We express our deep regret that the judgment of the judiciary made this time on the severe offenses that the administration decided to discipline in accordance with the legal procedure did not properly reflect the seriousness.” “I am worried that it will damage the government and lead to distrust of the judiciary, which will intensify the division of national opinion.”
He also said the legitimacy of the prosecution reform. Chief spokesman Choi said, “We will continue to systematically and strongly promote the reforms of the prosecution, which have been promoted since before this ruling, and launch the airlift without a hitch.”
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