The constitutional court of South Korea on Friday upheld impeachment on President Yun Suk Yeol’s disastrous martial law announcement, unanimously voted to quit his post to violate the Constitution.
64 -year -old Yun was suspended by MPs on 3 December in an attempt of civil rule, in which armed soldiers were seen deployed in Parliament. He was also arrested on charges of rebellion as part of a separate criminal case.
Their expulsion triggers the latest presidential elections, which should be held within 60 days.
Acting Court President Moon Hyung-Bee said, “Given the serious negative effects and far-reaching consequences of constitutional violations of the defendant … (We) the defendant President Yun Yun Suk Yol.”
The decision was unanimous by all the eight judges of the court, who have been given additional protection by the police with stress and supporters on the streets.
The judges said in their judgment, “the action” violates the main principles of law and the rule of democratic rule, which reduced the constitutional order and posed a serious threat to the stability of the democratic Republic. ,
The decision to send the armed soldiers to Parliament to Parliament to prevent MPs from voting for their decree “to prevent the political neutrality of the armed forces and violating the duties of the supreme command.”
He deployed soldiers for “political objectives”, the judges said, “Soldiers who served the country with a mission to defend the country to ensure national security and to face common citizens.”
The judges said, “Finally, the unconstitutional and illegal tasks of the defendant are a betrayal of people’s belief and a serious violation of the law, which cannot be tolerated from the protecting the Constitution,” judges ruled.
Impeachment
The second is the second South Korean leader to be impered by the court after Park Gune-Hai in 2017.
After weeks hearing of weeks, the judges spent more than a month, in which the case was deliberately performed, while all public disturbance erupted.
The police on Friday raised alert to the highest possible level, which led to the deployment of their entire force. Authorities surrounded the courtyard with a ring of vehicles and deployed special operations teams in the surrounding area.
The protesters of Anti-Yun shouted and shouted as a decision, crying. Some people jumped and shook each other’s hands in joy, while others hugged and cried.
Outside the residence of Yun, his supporters shouted and sworn, the decision was exploded in tears as a declaration of verdict with some.
As such, who defended civil rule as necessary to prevent “anti -state forces”, yet commands the support of extreme supporters.
At least two staunch supporters-one in the 70s and the second one died after self-immooling in protest against the impeachment of the leader of his 50s.
Embassies – American, French, Russian and Chinese – have warned citizens to avoid collective ceremonies regarding Friday’s decision.
The decision shows that “the first and flexibility of South Korean democracy,” Boonghwan son of George Mason University told AFP.
“Very fact that the system did not collapse, it suggests that Korean democracy can also survive the worst challenge against it – an attempt of a coup.”
‘Excessively unlikely’ to restore
South Korea has spent four months as Yun declared a martial law without an effective head of the state, as the opposition had impeached Yun’s stand-in-Kaval was later to be restored by a court verdict.
The leadership came during a series of vacuum crisis and headwind, including an aviation disaster and the deadliest forest fire in the history of the country.
This week, South Korea was slammed with 25 percent tariff with 25 percent tariff to the United States, when President Donald Trump unveiled the global, so -called mutual levy.
Since December, South Korea has been “partially paralyzed – it has been without a legitimate president and has been challenged by a political disaster and a political disaster called Trump,” Vladimir Tikhonov, Korean study professor Vladimir Tikhonov at the University of Oslo, told AFP.
Yun also faced a separate criminal test on allegations of rebellion on Marshall Law Boli.
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