South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday. The panel of judges overseeing the case unanimously voted to uphold Yoon’s impeachment.
This means the South Korean leader is immediately removed from the office of the President. The county now has to hold a snap election to replace him. During the hearing, the constitutional court judge read out the arguments from both sides. The court found that Yoon did not follow procedures when he implemented martial law.
The judge noted that Yoon’s exercise of “national emergency powers” was not justified, BBC reported. “There was no existence of the national emergency,” says Justice Moon Hyung-bae, who is acting president of the constitutional court. “It was a situation that could have been solved through other means other than military deployment,” he added.
The court believed Yoon went against those “he was supposed to protect and damaged people’s political rights”. “He did not uphold his duties and went against the people they were supposed to protect,” Justice Moon averred. Meanwhile, Yoon’s ruling People Power Party said they accepted the decision of the court and apologised to the Korean people.
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