Assemblyman Min Hyung-bae: "The Constitutional Court Should Relocate to Gwangju"

Proposal for Amendment to the Constitutional Court Act Introduced

All Local Assembly Members Jointly Propose as a 'One Team'

Min Hyung-bae, a member of the National Assembly (Democratic Party of Korea·Gwangju Gwangsan-gu Eul), on the 26th, took the lead in proposing the “Constitutional Court Act Amendment” to relocate the Constitutional Court to Gwangju.

In particular, this proposal is evaluated as demonstrating the one-team spirit once again, as all eight National Assembly members from the Gwangju area jointly proposed it following the enactment of the Gwangju Rehabilitation Court Establishment Act.

Until now, the Constitutional Court has been located in Seoul, which has led to side effects due to concentration in the metropolitan area and criticisms regarding political neutrality.

Accordingly, the plan is to relocate the Constitutional Court to Gwangju through the amendment of the law to promote balanced national development, decentralization of power, and strengthening of independence.

Gwangju is the place where the Gwangju Student Anti-Japanese Movement occurred during the Japanese colonial period, and the May 18, 1980 Democratization Movement served as the foundation for the 1987 constitutional system. Min explained that it is appropriate for the Constitutional Court, a national institution that protects the constitutional order, to be located there.

Min emphasized, “By promoting the relocation of the Constitutional Court to Gwangju simultaneously with the relocation of the Supreme Court to Daegu, we intend to physically distance judicial institutions from the center of administrative power,” adding, “Through this, we will simultaneously pursue substantial separation of powers and regional balanced development.”

Meanwhile, this amendment bill was proposed on the same day, June 26, 1987, when the National Peace March for the Achievement of a Democratic Constitution took place. The timing of the proposal was chosen to symbolize power decentralization and balanced national development.

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