The acting president of South Korea, Han Duck-Soo, resigns

The acting president of South Korea, Prime Minister Han Duck-Soo, resigned on Thursday, a sign that he plans to run to live in the permanent role during the presidential election of June 3.

Mr. Han said for weeks that he was thinking about the opportunity to come to the June elections, which was called after the dismissal and ouster of former president Yoon Suk Yeol, who had appointed Mr. Han as responsible No. 2 of his administration.

The resignation of Mr. Han intervened shortly after the country’s Supreme Court rendered a decision that could compromise the presidential offer of Lee Jae-Myung, the presidential candidate of the country’s majority Democratic Party which shows that the polls are the first rank to win the elections.

This decision threatens to add uncertainty to an election that the hope of the South Korean will end months of political disorders in the country since Mr. Yoon declared martial law at the end of last year, a short-term episode which led him to be removed from his functions. Mr. Han replaced Mr. Yoon for a while, but was then charged, before being restored as an acting president by the Constitutional Court.

“I decided to resign to do what I can do and what I should help overcome the crisis of our nation,” Han said in a statement.

Mr. Han ceased to say that he would present himself to the presidency. But his declaration on Thursday was considered by the South Korean information media and political circles as a de facto presidential declaration of presidential ambition. Han was to call a press conference later this week so that his manager of the presidential offer, local media reported.