What comes next after South Korean president’s removal?

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The Constitutional Court in South Korea toppled Yun Suk Yol as president, and supports the isolation of parliament to the former public prosecutor.

Yun’s attempt to impose martial law last year led to his suspension from his position and sparked political turmoil in the fourth largest economy in Asia.

The resulting leadership vacuum has been paralyzed in the government just as it should wrestle with the slow economy, aggressive American commercial policies and the growing nuclear threat from North Korea.

What did the court decided?

The judges unanimously supported the legislators’ view that Yoon exceeded his powers by announcing his shock from martial law in December.

The South Korean constitution allows the president to announce martial law “when military necessity is required or to preserve public safety and order by mobilizing military forces in war, armed conflict or similar national emergency.”

But the opposition -controlled national association argued in its proposal in account in December that the country was not suffering from a state of emergency from the intensity necessary to justify a military law decree, a position approved by the Constitutional Court now.

The suggestion also accused Yoon of procedural violations, including his deployment of soldiers to storm the National Assembly in a clear attempt to prevent legislators to reject martial law.

In his last defense before the Constitutional Court in February, Yoon argued that his decree was necessary to “alert the public” to the “evil” of the left opposition and what he described as “external forces, including North Korea, along with the hostile elements of the state within our society.”

But on Friday, the court ruled with a margin of 8-0, Yoon “gave up his duty to support the constitution and betray the Korean people strongly.”

What happens Leon?

After his isolation in December, Yoon was suspended from his constitutional duties, but he remained the nominal head of the country and the head of state.

On Friday, he removed him from his post, making him an ordinary ordinary citizen. The maximum of South Korea is one for presidents means that he cannot seek to re -election. Yun also faces charges of criminal rebellion related to his attempt to impose martial law, which is what he denies.

He is expected to judge his criminal trial, which is scheduled to start on April 14th, later this year or early 2026. If convicted, Yoon may face life in life or even the death penalty, although South Korea has not executed anyone since 1997.

Who will replace Unit?

According to the South Korean constitution, presidential elections must be held to choose behind Yun within 60 days.

Lee Jay Meong, a factory manufacturer who has turned into the left opposition party, is advancing in the polls. Yun was defeated by less than a percentage in the 2022 presidential elections.

Among the competitors of the Power Conservative Party in Yun, Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo, the O’Te -Si Hoon mayor, the Daiju Hong John Pio, and former party leader Han Dong Hoon.

While the Democratic Party is widely seen as a candidate, it also faces legal challenges. Public Prosecutors call a newly ruling in the Supreme Court, which arrested him with wrong data during an electoral campaign.

It is also scheduled to be tried this month on charges of directing money to North Korea.

In both cases of his public position, condemnation can be prevented, although it is unclear what will happen if he was elected president before the completion of the trials. He denies all violations.

Who is responsible now?

Prime Minister Han Dac Soo, who is appointed by Yoon and the technocrats who have been serving for a long time, will continue as a prosecutor until the elections.

Han, who assumed the position of prosecutor as soon as Yoon was isolated, was the same suspended for several months in late December after the opposition parties voted to remove his refusal to fill three vacant sites in the constitutional court of nine members.

Then the president’s role was fell in front of Choi Sang Mok, the country’s finance minister, who filled two of the three vacant sites in the Constitutional Court.

Last month, the court canceled the dismissal of Han, and his recovery as prime minister and prosecutor.

Will this political crisis to South Korea end?

On Friday, South Korea is close to addressing its leadership vacuum, but the tensions raised by the Yun Martial Law will soon be dissipated.

Supporters and opponents accountable for Yun directly made regular demonstrations throughout the country. Some pro -Leon protests were distinguished by violence, as the militants stormed the Seoul court after his arrest on criminal charges in January.

The theories of land conspiracy have expressed increasingly between the loyalists in Yun, including an unfounded claim of this on a large scale on social media that Chinese citizens have been manipulated by South Korea’s electoral systems and were later deported through an American military base.

The Democratic Party is also a deep attraction. He went to hunger hunger in 2023 to protest what he described as “prosecutor dictatorship”.

Last year, Lee was stabbed in the neck by a member of the public, and in recent weeks, he has made many public manifestations wearing a bulletproof jacket.

Han, the Acting President, and the Party Party, the People previously pledged to accept the decision of the Constitutional Court. Some analysts said that anger among conservatives can prove limited because attention quickly turns into who will appear as a new standard holder.