2023-11-05 16:02:09
Kim Hyeong-du, Cho Hee-dae, Jeong Young-hwan, etc.
The hearing of the head of the Constitutional Court was also agreed on the 13th.
President Yoon Seok-yeol will nominate a new Supreme Court Chief Justice candidate as early as this week. Attention is being paid to whether the ruling and opposition parties will tentatively agree to hold a confirmation hearing for Lee Jong-seok, the nominee for Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, on the 13th, minimizing concerns that a simultaneous vacuum for the two heads of the judiciary will become a reality.
An official from the Presidential Office said on the 5th, “President Yoon will soon nominate a candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,” and added, “I understand that it is in the final verification stage.”
The group of candidates for the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has been narrowed down to Constitutional Court Justice Kim Hyeong-du (left, 58, 19th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute), former Supreme Court Justice Cho Hee-dae (center, 66, 13th class), and Jeong Young-hwan (right, 63, 15th class), a professor at Korea University Law School, and President Yoon. It is said that only the final decision remains. The position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has been vacant for over 40 days since former candidate Lee Gyun-yong, who was nominated as the successor to former Chief Justice Kim Myeong-soo following he retired at the end of September, failed to receive consent from the National Assembly and failed to run on the 6th of last month.
Justice Kim is the first Constitutional Court judge under the Yoon Seok-yeol administration and is evaluated as a moderate conservative. Given that he is from Honam (Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do), if he is nominated as a candidate, it can also be interpreted as a regional arrangement.
Former Supreme Court Justice Cho, known for his conservative tendencies, was appointed as a Supreme Court Justice in March 2014 during the Park Geun-hye administration. Even if he is appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in accordance with the retirement age (70 years) regulations, he may not complete his six-year term.
Professor Jeong, who served as president of the Korean Law Professors Association, left the legal profession and has been teaching since 2000. Some predict that Professor Jeong may be ‘surprisingly selected’ as a candidate to avoid controversy over his political inclinations.
With the term of office of Constitutional Court Chief Justice Yoo Nam-seok expiring on the 10th, the ruling and opposition parties, which had been fighting over the schedule for the confirmation hearing for the successor, have tentatively agreed to hold the hearing on the 13th. The Special Committee for Personnel Hearings, the head of the Constitutional Court, plans to hold its first plenary meeting on the 6th and adopt a personnel hearing plan containing this schedule. Like the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court must undergo a vote on the appointment of the National Assembly. An appointment can only be made if a majority of the registered members are present and a majority of the members present must approve.
Reporters Ahn Seok and Hwang In-ju
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