High Court Dismisses Joo Ho-young's Appeal Against Injunction on Daegu Mayoral Nomination Cutoff

Appeal Filed After Seoul Southern District Court Dismissal
Seoul High Court Also Upholds Same Decision

Joo Ho-young, a six-term lawmaker who was cut off (excluded from nomination) in the People Power Party's Daegu mayoral primary for the 9th Nationwide Local Elections on June 3, filed an injunction against the party's decision, but his appeal has also been rejected.

Rep. Joo Ho-young, a six-term lawmaker who was cut off (excluded from nomination) in the People Power Party's Daegu mayoral candidate primary, held a press conference on June 8 at the National Assembly Press Hall in Yeouido, Seoul. Photo by Yonhap News

According to the legal community, on April 22, the Civil Division 25-1 of the Seoul High Court (Presiding Judges Lee Kyun-yong, Hwang Byung-ha, and Han Chang-hoon) dismissed Joo's appeal against the rejection of his request to suspend the effect of his exclusion from nomination.

The People Power Party's Nomination Management Committee cut off both the six-term lawmaker Joo and Lee Jin-sook, the former Chairperson of the Korea Communications Commission.

Joo, objecting to the party's decision, had filed an injunction with the Seoul Southern District Court to suspend the effect of the decision, but it was dismissed. At the time, the court stated, "It is insufficient to conclude that there were significant and clear procedural or substantive flaws in either the qualification review process or its outcome to the extent that the decision should be considered invalid."

Joo subsequently appealed on the 8th, but the higher court, the Seoul High Court, reached the same conclusion.

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