Seoul, South Korea (AP) – South Korea Constitutional court is in session Friday to reign over the dismissal President Yoon Suk YeolFour months after the conservative chief launched the country in the troubles with an unhappy declaration of martial law. This will remove him from his functions or will restore his powers.
The court was to return its verdict during a television session nationally to start at 11 a.m., a decision to maintain the dismissal of the parliament and withdraw Yoon from the office requires the support of at least six of the eight judges of the court.
If the court orders Yoon Removed, South Korea must hold a new presidential election within two months. If the court cancels its dismissal, Yoon will immediately return to presidential tasks.
Thousands of supporters and opponents of Yoon gathered in downtown Seoul to wait for the decision, while the police sought to discourage potential violence.
The Declaration of Martial Law of Yoon December 3 lasted only six hours before it was forced to raise it after the liberal legislature controlled by the opposition quickly succeeded in Vote it. Later in December, the assembly indictment Yoon, suspending his powers and sending his case before the Constitutional Court. Yoon faces a separate criminal trial For an alleged rebellion.
Whatever Friday’s verdict, experts predict that this will further deepen domestic divisions. In the past four months, millions of people have come down to the streets to denounce or support Yoon, Deepening the division of southern South Korea, the conservative-liberal division.
Friday morning, the area surrounding the court was a maze of portable walls, folding fences, fiberglass barricades and hundreds of buses and police vans – some with their wheels attached together to prevent the demonstrators from moving them – sealing almost all the roads and alleys leading to the field. The agents kept the narrow gaps between the vehicles and the barricades, directing pedestrians through designated channels, checking the identifiers and instructing them to walk only in a straight direction. The army said it was planning to increase its own monitoring posture.
There was an atmosphere of carnival in an anti-Yoon rally near the former royal palace which dominates the city center of Seoul. Patriotic music has released huge speakers while thousands of banners gave the head of the opposition Lee and denouncing Yoon. Some danced and sang, while others chased slogans and shook their fists. Some people came dressed in pretty blue bear costumes – a protest mascot that uses the colors of the opposition – with lee stickers covering them, or giant plaster heads resembling Lee.
People sat down and looked at an intense wait when the audience was shown on a giant screen, sometimes encouraging the long reading. Many have used their phones to record reading and could be seen forward in an intense wait.
The most controversial problem at the trial of the dismissal of Yoon was the reason why he sent hundreds of soldiers and police to the National Assembly, to electoral offices and other places after declaring martial law.
Yoon said he had sent soldiers to the assembly to maintain order and that his martial law declaration was a desperate attempt to withdraw attention to the “wickedness” of the Main Liberal Democratic Party. But the senior military and police officials who were sent to the Assembly showed Yoon ordered them to have rival politicians and prevent the Assembly from voting to raise its order.
Although the period of martial law ended without violence, the request for dismissal accuses Yoon of raping the Constitution and other laws by eliminating the activities of the Assembly, trying to hold politicians and undergo peace.
Prime Minister Han Duck-Soo, the country’s head of the country, has repeatedly urged the rival parties to accept the decision of the decision.
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The Associated Press writer, Foster Klug, contributed to this report.
