Constitutional court of South Korea approved the impeachment of the President
TOKYO, Mar 10 — RIA Novosti. Constitutional court of South Korea approved the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye, passed by Parliament on 9 December last year amid the biggest corruption scandal.
The CC decision was announced on Friday in a live South Korean TV channel YTN. All 8 judges of the constitutional court voted in favor of impeachment.
Park Geun-Hye is now completely removed from government, and within 60 days should be held early presidential elections.
If not impeachment, then the President’s term of office was to expire in February 2018, and the election was to be held on 20 December this year.
The reason for impeachment, Park Geun-Hye was caught in the media that she is allowed to intervene in the Affairs of state to his nearest friend by the name of Choi sung-SIL, allegedly, up to and solve personnel issues.
Currently, Choi sung-SIL is under arrest, she is accused of that, under the guise of relationships with the President she’s “pumped” large sums of money from corporations in South Korea.
The duties of the head of state does the Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn.
The forthcoming early elections for the presidency are expected to fight former Democratic party Chairman moon Jae-In, leading in the popularity polls of public opinion. In the past presidential elections, he was nominated by the opposition and lost to Park Geun-Hye by a small margin.
Behind him in the rankings followed by the Governor of the province of chungcheongnam-do Ahn Hee Jung and Seongnam mayor Lee Jae-Myung and Ahn Chul-soo from “people’s party”.
In South Korea, also called the possible presidential candidate of the former UN Secretary-General ban Ki-moon, who, in the end, refused to run for the presidency, behind in the rankings from moon Jae-In.
In 2004, the Parliament of the Republic of Korea also announced the impeachment of then President Roh Moo-Hyun, however, the constitutional court regained its powers.