South Korea’s president removed from office over martial law bid

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Four months after the short -lived efforts to impose military law, South Korean President Yun Suk Eol has been removed from the post, leaving a prolonged political crisis.

On Friday, the Constitutional Court unanimously declared that they would keep the parliament from Parliament in favor of the curse due to its failed electricity last year, remove him from the office and finish its presidential post in less than three years in his five years.

A presidential election will now be held within 60 days.

In December, the hardline prosecutor trigger the action to impose martial law South KoreaThe most severe political crisis since the conversion of democracy in the late sixties, resulting in his suspension and subsequently arrested for criminal charges of rebellion.

Union told the court in February that his decision to deploy the army for the storm in the National Assembly was needed to “warn the public” about the “mischief” of the leftist opponents.

However, on Friday morning, the acting Chief Justice Moon Hung-Baye announced the verdict of the court that Yun had violated the basic policies of the democratic state “.

“The defendant combined the military and police forces to break the authority of the constitutional institution and to violate the fundamental rights of the people,” said Moon.

“In doing so, he left his duty to support the Constitution and was seriously betrayed with the confidence of the Korean people.”

For the second time that has been made and removed from the position of South Korea under a decade, the fourth largest economy of Asia has wrestling and transparent growth and deepening political polarization.

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