`` The rule of law shakes from the ground, '' criticisms of constitutional scholars and other prosecutors for extending retirement

`` The rule of law shakes from the ground, '' constitutional scholars and other prosecutors criticize the extension of retirement age February 21 20:49

A group of constitutional scholars met in Tokyo on Tuesday over the retirement of the Tokyo High Prosecutor's Attorney's office, saying, `` The rule of law is that the rule of law can be freely changed for the sake of the administration. I will be shaken from the ground. "

The retirement age of Tokyo High Prosecutor's Attorney Kurokawa was extended based on the National Public Service Law, but the Minister of Justice Mori was interpreting that the retirement age of prosecutors could be extended when the retirement system was introduced in the National Public Service Law. Although it did not exist, it indicates that the government's interpretation of the law has made it possible.

The Constitutional Democracy Association, made up of constitutional scholars and political scholars, held a press conference in Tokyo and issued a protest statement.

In a statement, `` the rules of personnel of prosecutors who investigate criminal offenses at the center of power should not be decided merely by Cabinet decisions without deliberation and decisions of the Diet. '' In addition, he states, "If the current government's interpretation of the law can be freely changed for the sake of the current administration, the rule of law that should limit the actions of the administration will be fundamentally shaken."

`` The prosecutor understands that the provisions of the State Public Service Law have been excluded and continues to interpret the matter, '' said the Chief of Staff's salary chief on Wednesday regarding the extension of retirement. , 19, "Missing" has been corrected.

A group co-representative, Professor Jiro Yamaguchi of Hosei University, said in a press conference on Tuesday that `` the government officers who are proud of the stable interpretation and operation of the law and the implementation of fair administration should be forced to surrender, so to speak. And feel some sort of violence. "

`` It is the current political situation in Japan that the government must do what is right, despite all duties and ethics, '' said Professor Emeritus Osamu Nishitani of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. I was talking.

Ministry of Justice "It is natural to understand that the provisions of the National Public Service Law apply"

On the other hand, over the retirement of the Attorney General Kurokawa of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Justice said, "If retirement of a public prosecutor is considered broadly, it will be included in the" retirement by retirement "of the National Public Service Act. It is natural to understand that the rules apply. "