South Korean President Yun Suk Yeol was excluded by the Constitutional Court on Friday, which last year retained the martial law of impeachment of Parliament, which gave rise to the worst political crisis in the country in decades.
The ruling caps months of political upheaval have made efforts to deal with US President Donald Trump’s new administration at the time of slowing the growth in Asia’s fourth largest economy.
With the expulsion of this, according to the constitution of the country, a presidential election is required within 60 days.
The Prime Minister Han Dak-Su and then will continue to work as the acting president until the new President is inaugurated.
“The constitutional court verdict has removed a major source of uncertainty in Seoul, Professor Leaf-Eric Eela, EWHA University in Seoul. “And not even a moment soon, seeing how the next administration in Seoul would have to navigate North Korea’s military threats, China’s diplomatic pressure and Trump’s trade tariff.”
Acting Chief Justice Moon Hung-Bee said that Yun violated his duty as President with his December 3 martial law, worked beyond the powers given to him under the Constitution and described his actions as “a serious challenge for democracy”.
“(Yu) performed a serious betrayal for the People’s Trust, a sovereign member of the Democratic Republic,” Moon said, the declaration of martial law of Yun created anarchy in all areas of society, economy and foreign policy.
Thousands of people are calling for the expulsion of this rally, including hundreds of people who camped overnight, ruling, “We won!”
The supporters of Yun who gathered near his official residence reacted angrily. A guard was arrested for breaking the window of a police bus, the Yonhap news agency.
South Korean won was largely surprised by Friday’s decision, which was about 1% more vs. $ 1,436.6 per dollar by 0249 GMT. The benchmark cospy was 0.7%below, even unchanged since morning because the expected landscape was to maintain the impeachment bill for the court.
Arguments dismissed
The court dismissed most of the arguments that they declared martial law to play an alarm on the misuse of their parliamentary majority of the main opposition party, saying that there were legally proper proper ways to overcome disagreement.
Moon said that martial law decree lacks justification and it was also procedurally faulty. He said that gathering the army against Parliament to disrupt his actions was a serious violation of the constitutional duties to protect the freedom of three branches of the government.
The ruling people of Yun apologized to the power party’s interim leader Quon Young, saying that the party politely accepted the court’s decision and resolved to work with the caretaker President to stabilize the country.
The caretaker President Han Duck-Su, after the verdict, said that he would do all that to ensure a systematic and peaceful presidential election.
Finance Minister Choi Song-Mok is expected to hold an emergency meeting with the Governor and Financial Regulators of Bank of Korea.
64 -year -old Yun suffers a criminal test on allegations of rebellion related to the martial law announcement. The first South Korean President to be arrested on January 15 became the President, but was released after a court canceled the arrest warrant in March.
The declaration of martial law of Yun had begun the crisis, which he has said that the “anti-state” elements needed to be removed from the root and the opposition Democratic party’s alleged misbehavior of his parliamentary majority of the Democratic party, he said he said he said he was destroying the country. “
Yun picked up the decree after six hours, when parliamentary staff used barricades and fire extinguishers to close special operations sold by helicopters and broke the windows as they demanded to enter Parliament, where MPs voted to reject the Marshall Act. Yun has said that he never intended to fully implement emergency military rule and tried to reduce the decline, saying that no one was hurt.
