You're shaking up the ruling and opposition parties who are always playing "trickle-and-pick."The Constitutional Court is also an unusual 'bitter'

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As the Constitutional Court temporarily suspended the effect of the Constitutional Court Act, which allows a case to be heard with at least seven judges, the "constitutional paralysis" situation can be avoided for now.

However, as the fundamental problem has not been solved, it is pointed out that the political community should stop the war of nerves and quickly appoint a successor.

Reporter Kwon Junsu reports.

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The president, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and the National Assembly have three constitutional judges each.

The replacement of the three judges, who are set to retire on the 17th, is up to the National Assembly's election,
The ruling and opposition parties of
have not been able to narrow their opinions on the distribution of recommendation rights.

Opposition says it will recommend two of its three successors depending on the number of seats,

The ruling party is insisting that the ruling and opposition parties follow the custom of recommending one person each and electing the other by agreement between the ruling and opposition parties.

At this rate, concerns were raised early that only six constitutional judges would remain and that the case could not be heard.

However, when there was no significant movement in the National Assembly, the Constitutional Court itself took an emergency measure of "stopping effectiveness."

[Jang Young-soo / Professor of law at Korea University] If three people (the term expires), the hearing itself cannot be conducted under the current constitutional law. Then that means that it's functional paralysis in the end. [I think the Constitutional Court felt the seriousness and made this decision to cite the provisional disposition]

This is not the first time that the operation of the Constitutional Court has been put on the back burner due to political confrontation over the right to recommend.

In 2012, five people were vacant as four more people left office at the same time without deciding on a successor to a judge whose term ended for more than a year,

In 2018, the appointment of five judges was not made on time, so it was operated in a four-person system for about a month.

The Constitutional Court made the decision to cite this time
Although retirement due to the expiration of the term of office
is naturally expected, he said that it is a serious problem to have the problem of judge vacancies repeatedly.

The Constitutional Court also pointed out that there is no institutional supplement such as an acting system,
In order to normalize the
constitution, there are growing calls for the National Assembly not only to hurry to recommend it, but also to come up with supplementary measures.

I'm YTN Kwon Junsu.


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