The South Korean constitutional court decided on Friday to suppress President Yoon Suk Yeol and to control Parliament’s application for office on his short -lived impact on war law last year, which has triggered the country’s worst political crisis for decades.
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The South Korean Constitutional Court will decide on Friday about the elevation of President Yoon Suk Yeol, either removed from office from office or his powers are rushed four months after the conservative leader with an unfortunate declaration of war law.
The court was supposed to make a judgment on Yoon in a session broadcast nationwide on television, which is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. At least six of his eight judges have to vote to remove Yoon so that the elevation is confirmed.
If the Court of Court is removed, a national election will be held within two months to find a new president. If the court rules for the president are available, he will immediately return to the president’s duties.
Yoon’s explanation of the war law on December 3rd lasted six hours before he was forced to raise them after the liberal, opposition legislator quickly managed to tailor them. Later in December the Yoon assembly was pending, stopping its powers and sent his case to the constitutional court. Yoon faces a separate criminal proceedings for alleged rebellion.
Whatever the judgment on Friday, experts assume that it will further deepen the domestic distinctions. In the past four months, millions have taken to the streets to denounce or support Yoon, which deepens the already serious conservative-liberal division in South Korea.
The South Korean investigators left the official residence of the accused President Yoon Suk Yeol based on a Near-Six hour patsition on Friday, in which he opposed her attempt to hold him. Jeremy Chan, Senior Analyst at the China & Northeastasia group, Eurasia, says that he is “deeply concerned” about the state of democracy in South Korea.
In view of the concern that violence could break out after the judgment, the police started thousands of officials on Thursday and placed police buses, rolled fences and plastic barricades to seal the streets to the court. The military said it is planning to increase its own surveillance position.
Thousands of competing demonstrators continued their rallies and gave their final appeal to the court to maintain or reject the elevation of Yoon.
“We have been exhausted and worn out for four months, but our anger to Yoon Suk Yeol remains strong,” protester Kim Mi-OK called during an anti-yoon rally.
In the past, Yoon supporters gathered nearby, waving South Korean and US flags and raised signs, which were: “The fraudulent survey is certainly rejected.” On the stage, a protest manager repeatedly led chants of “Let us protect him!”
The most controversial problem with Yoon’s office procedure was why he sent hundreds of troops and police officers to the National Assembly, the electoral offices and other places under the declared war law.
Although the time of war law ended without violence, the application for incentives to have violated the constitution and other laws by suppressing the assembly activities, trying to capture politicians and undermine peace throughout the country.
Yoon said that his shipping of the soldiers should maintain order to the assembly. He also said that he had imposed war law in a desperate attempt to draw attention to the “malice” of the liberal opposition Democratic Party, which disabled his agenda and wrote many of his best officials. But high-ranking military and police officers who were sent to the meeting have stated that Yoon ordered them to capture competing politicians and to prevent the meeting from.
Prime Minister Han Duck-Soo, the deputy leader of the country, has repeatedly asked the competing pages to accept the judgment made on Friday.
Shin Yoon-Hye, 63, an office worker who visited anti-yoon demonstrations three times, said she would gather against Yoon again if the court restored its presidential powers.
“If Yoon’s survey is lifted, our country will fall into the abyss,” she said. “Yoon tried to solve things by force when he was put into a corner politically. That was wrong. We are a democratic country and should have had a political compromise.”
