Constitutional Court to Focus on President Yoon's Impeachment Trial...Judge Lee Jinsook. To next year.

Controversy over 'two-person system' postponed Lee Jin-sook's impeachment trial
From the 24th to January 15th next year...3 weeks later
The Constitutional Court is likely to focus on the first preparation date for the president's impeachment trial on the 27th.

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The Constitutional Court has postponed the impeachment trial of Lee Jin-sook, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, until next year.

It is explained that it has considered the schedule of the National Assembly's personnel hearings of three candidates for the Constitutional Court, and it is expected to focus its capabilities on the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Reporter Shin Ji-won reports.

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Lee Jin-sook, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, was impeached on the grounds that it was illegal to vote on the appointment of a director of a public broadcaster in the "two-person system" of the Korea Communications Commission.

The impeachment hearing date, which was scheduled for the 24th, has been postponed to January 15 next year.

The hearing was scheduled to be concluded after hearing the final opinions of both Chairman Lee and the National Assembly on the same day, but it was postponed for about three weeks.

An official of the Constitutional Court explained that it considered the schedule of personnel hearings for three candidates for the Constitutional Court scheduled for the 23rd and 24th,
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, it is interpreted that it will focus on the preparation date for the first hearing of the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol on the 27th.

[Jang Young-soo / Professor of law at Korea University] (During the impeachment trial of former President Park Geun Hye), the Constitutional Court pushed back all other cases and conducted intensive hearings on it because it said that the state affairs could be stabilized and the vacuum in state affairs could be resolved only when this work is completed quickly..]

Other impeachment trial dates are also scheduled in January next year, including Choi Hae-soo, chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection, and Lee Chang-soo, chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.

The Constitutional Court said it will put President Yoon's case first among the impeachment cases and make a quick and fair trial.

[Lee Jin / Public Information Officer of the Constitutional Court: This case is the top priority in the impeachment trial.]

Constitutional judges are also reviewing documents on President Yoon's impeachment trial over the weekend and organizing their opinions,
It is expected to reveal whether the documents will be served to President Yoon, who has not received the documents related to the impeachment trial the day after (∀ tomorrow).

I'm Shin Jiwon of YTN.

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