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A civic group, which won the first trial by filing a lawsuit against the Blue House to disclose special activity expenses, this time filed a lawsuit against the constitutionality of the law requiring the transfer of presidential records.

Even if the court orders it to be disclosed, if the Blue House appeals and delays the time, the president's records will eventually be transferred, which infringes the people's right to know.



For more details, reporter Park Chan-geun will tell you.



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In 2018, the taxpayers' association, a civic group, requested the disclosure of four information related to special activity expenses from the Blue House.



The Blue House kept all of them private for reasons such as fear of harming the vital interests of the country.



A civic group filed a lawsuit to cancel the undisclosed disposition and won the first trial, but if President Moon Jae-in resigns at midnight on May 9, the data will be transferred to the Presidential Archives regardless of the progress of the lawsuit and will be sealed for up to 30 years.



This is because of the Presidential Archives Act, which required that records be transferred to the Presidential Archives before the end of the term, but the Taxpayers Federation filed a constitutional complaint saying that this provision is unconstitutional.



[Chairman Kim Seon / Taxpayers Federation: The people's right to know is important.

Corruption and abuse of power can be prevented through this right to know.]



There have been cases in the past where data was transferred to the archives despite the public decision of the first trial court, and the trial itself became useless.



In 2014, during the Park Geun-hye administration, a civic group won the first trial in an administrative lawsuit to the effect of disclosing the Blue House special expenses and the report on the day of the Sewol ferry accident, but when the records were transferred due to the impeachment of former President Park, the second trial judge dismissed the decision. .



Considering the number of years before the Supreme Court, any government can avoid disclosing data under the Presidential Records Act.



The Taxpayers' Federation also filed an injunction requesting that Article 11 Paragraph 1 of the Presidential Records Act be suspended until the conclusion of this constitutional complaint is reached.



This is to ask the Blue House not to transfer the details of the execution of special expenses and documents for the expenses of the first lady before the Constitutional Court decides.



The impact may increase depending on the timing and content of the Constitutional Court's decision on the application for injunction.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Park Soo-seon, CG: Park Cheon-woong)