What comes after the South Korean president?

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As a president, South Korea’s Constitutional Court, as a president, provided the sensitivity of the former prosecutor as President.

Saddle Attempt to apply the law of the war Last year, he caused him to hang from the office and caused political confusion in the fourth largest economy in Asia.

As a result, a leadership vacuum was paralyzed the government, as the government struggles with the aggressive US trade policy and nuclear threat from North Korea.

What did the court decide?

The judges unanimously inspected the powers of Yoon in December, in December.

South KoreaThe Constitution of the CONSTRUCTION allows for the mobilization of military forces or similar national ambulances during the war or to protect the organization and order of public safety and order or protecting public safety and order.

However, the opposition-controlled Milli Milli Milli Majlis, in December, the decree of impeachment, the country has claimed that the violence required to be aware of a position approved by the Constitutional Court.

The movement is also charged Yoon Procedural violations, including the storm of soldiers, including the Milli Majlis, in a clear offer to prevent voting to reject the war law.

In February, before the Constitutional Court, Yoon, the decree was “foreign forces, including anti-state elements in our society”, including “foreign forces”, including “foreign forces”, including “foreign forces”, claimed to warn “foreign forces”.

However, the Court ruled 8-0 on Friday that YOON “left the task of giving the Constitution and left his duty to betray the trust of the Korean people.”

What happens?

After the impeachment in December, Yoon remained from carrying out constitutional duties, but the country’s nominal president and the head of state.

Friday verdict immediately pulled him out of the effect, made him a regular person. One-term limit for South Korean presidents means re-election. Yoon is also facing a criminal residence associated with an attempt to apply the battle law.

The criminal court, which will start on April 14, is expected in early this year or 2026.

Who will replace Yoo?

According to the South Korean Constitution, the presidential election should be held within 60 days to choose Yoon’s success.

Lee Jae-MyUngung, a combined factory worker leading to the opposition Democratic Party from the left, a conversion lawyer, ahead of the questionnaires. In the 2022 presidential election, he lost to Yoon in a percentage of a percentage.

Yoon’s Conservative People Power Party Plaintiffs Labor Minister Kim Moon-Soo, Seoul Mayor OH Se-Hoon, Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-Pio and former party leader Han Dong-Hoon.

If the Democratic Party Lee is widely seen, it also faces legal problems. Prosecutors, the verdict of a recent high court clears him from making fake statements during the election campaign.

It is also related to the judiciary on charges of funds related to the channels of funds this month.

In both cases, the court may leave the public office, although the president is elected, it is unknown if he is elected president. Rejects all mistakes.

Who is now responsible?

Prime Minister Han Duck-Soo, a technical technocrat, who appointed a Yoon and has been working for a long time, will continue until the election.

Immediately after the surrendent of Yoon, Han, who served as President, the opposition parties refused to refuse to fill three vacancies in the Nine Organic Constitutional Court in December.

The President’s role was then fell to the Minister of Finance of Finance Choi Sang-Mok, which filled two of three empty spaces in the Constitutional Court.

The court last month Overweight Han’s impeachmentHe is the Prime Minister and the president.

Will this last South Korea be a political crisis?

Friday ruling approaches South Korea’s leadership to the elimination of vacuum, but the tension raised by Yoon’s War Declaration is unlikely to collapse soon.

The supporters and opponents of Yoon’s impeachment were regular demonstrations in the country. Some Yoon protests were violently marked with harsh conservatives Storms to Seoul Justice After the arrest of criminal charges in January.

The theories of the third conspiracy were spread among Yoon loyalty, including the fact that Chinese citizens are restrained with South Korea’s election systems, including an unreasonable claim, and then deported through the US military base.

The Democratic Party Lee is also a deep polar figure. In 2023, he went to the hunger strike in protest of Yooon as “Dictatorship of Prosecutor’s Office.”

Lee was stabbed to his neck by Lee People’s neck and made several public spokesmen who played a bullet in recent weeks.

Han, the President of the Actor and the People’s Power Party will previously adopt the decision of the Constitutional Court. Some analysts said that the anger between the conservatives, which will continue to appear as a new standard carrier of the right, he said.