Tokyo High Prosecutor's Attorney-General's Retirement Extension Citizens' Group Demonstration Protest February 20 5:06
On the evening of the 19th, a civic group held a protest in front of the Diet over the extension of the retirement age of Tokyo Attorney General Kurokawa.
A protest held around 6:30 p.m. around the Houses of Parliament attracted approximately 1,800 people, as announced by the hosting citizen group.
Attorney Kurokawa's retirement age was extended based on the National Public Service Law, but at the deliberations of the National Assembly in 1981, a person in charge of the National Personnel Authority said, "The prosecutor has already set a retirement age, and the retirement age under the National Public Service Law. The system does not apply. "
In response, Prime Minister Abe said in a lower house plenary session on March 13, `` At the time, I understood that the prosecution was exempted by the Public Prosecutor's Office Law, but the public prosecutor is also a public servant, and the extension of work is regulated by the provisions of the National Public Service Law. Will be applied. "
Participants in the demonstration raised Spreichkoll at the Parliament Building, saying, "I'm against retirement."
A 62-year-old man said, "It is not the rule of the rule-of-law state that one Cabinet will change the interpretation of the law without permission. The prosecution's personnel will not be privatized and must be left blank." .
A 71-year-old woman said, "You can't extend your retirement age to make the prosecutor-general the prosecutor-general. I think that an inconvenient case in the official residence is the intention to bury in the dark."