- After the December martial law, President Yun excluded last week.
- Many candidates emerge between political upheaval.
- Opposition leader Lee J-Mung leads the elections.
The leading contenders began to throw their hats in the ring on Tuesday as South Korea officially set a Snap for the presidential election on 3 June, which was implemented for the previous week, which was to remove the applied leader Yun Yun Suk Yol.
Power vacuum at the top of the government has disrupted the efforts of Seoul to split the US tariff and slow down the growth of Asia’s fourth largest economy.
Yun was removed on Friday on its short -term declaration of martial law, which threatened the leading American colleague, leading to a new election that could reopen its foreign and domestic policy.
Acting President Han Duck-Suk said in a cabinet meeting, “The government has intended to nominate June 3 as the 21st presidential election day.
Yun’s Labor Minister Kim Moon-Moon is one of a handful of expectations who have indicated to run their intentions to resign from their posts on Tuesday and said that he will launch his campaign.
While officially not at this time was not a member of the People’s Power Party (PPP), Kim is doing better than other conservative contenders.
Kim told reporters, “I resigned my resignation and decided to run because people want it, people I know, they want it, and I feel a sense of responsibility to solve national difficulties.”
He said that during the “serious national crisis”, the economic situation is harming the livelihood of the people.
“I thought all politicians and people should unite to overcome the crisis and work together to help further develop the country,” Kim said.
Ahol-Suha-Su, a PPP legalist, who was the first to vote for the impeachment of Yun, also announced his intention on Tuesday, saying that he was “Cleaner candidate compared to someone else”.
He vowed to secure new economic development engines, including artificial intelligence to combat Trump’s trade policies.
AHN fought the last three presidential elections, won more than 21% of the popular vote in 2017, but left the other two candidates in two. He is not doing enough votes to join the most recent surveys.
Kim and AHN will join a broad-fasting region of orthodox candidates who are trying to overcome their party’s second impeachment as many presidents.
Conservative Park Gune-Hai was impeached, removed from office, and imprisoned in 2017 on a corruption scam.
Liberal Democratic Party’s populist leader Lee J-Mung, who lost in 2022 by a razor-thunder margin, is a clear front-colon, but faces his own legal challenges.
These include several tests for allegations such as election law and violation of bribery.
Nevertheless, he is expected to step down as a DP leader and declare his candidature as this week.
In a gallop poll published on Friday, 34% of the respondents supported Lee as the next leader, while 9% supported Kim, 5% selected for former PPP leader Han Dong-Hun, 4% selected Dengu Mayor Hong June-Pai, and 2% plump for Sol Mayor Oh to-Hon.
On 3 December, this was removed by the Constitutional Court to violate their official duties by gathering soldiers in a bid to stop the martial law decree and to prevent parliamentary proceedings.
If the situation is empty, the law requires a new presidential election within 60 days.
While still facing allegations of criminal rebellion, with argument in his test starting on 14 April.
South Korea has faced the political upheaval of months as Yun shocked the country by announcing martial law, triggering his impeachment and impeachment of acting leader Han by Parliament.
Han’s impeachment was later reversed by the Constitutional Court, and he will play the acting president till the election.
