Seoul:
South Korea will hold the presidential election on June 3, the acting President of the country said on Tuesday that former Seoul leader Yun Suk Yeol was removed from the post on the disastrous announcement of the martial law.
South Korea has been effectively leaderless since December, when former President Yun tried to abolish civil rule, but was quickly impeached by MPs and suspended from the office.
Last week, a court retained its impeachment, snatched it from top job, and triggered new elections, which should be held within 60 days.
The government had “discussed with the National Election Commission and other concerned agencies”, Prime Minister Han Duck-Suk said on Tuesday.
He said that “there is a need to allow sufficient time to ensure smooth election operations and to prepare political parties.”
As a result, he has decided to determine “June 3 as the date of the 21st presidential election of South Korea,” he said, saying that this day will be nominated as a temporary public holiday for voting convenience.
Han called the Ministries and the National Election Commission to “fully prepare to ensure an election that is more fair and more transparent than ever, and one who can earn people’s trust.”
Unlike a regular survey, where a Presidential-election has a two-month transition period, the winner of the June 3 election will be inaugurated the next day.
For some time, the Prime Minister Han has been running the government as a acting president, a job that he recently resumed after the Constitutional Court throwing his own impeachment.
The campaign begins in May
The presidential elections are usually held on Wednesday, but the snap pole triggered by a vacancy requires no specific functioning.
The official campaign period will run from 12 May to 2 June.
Opposition leader Lee J-Mung is at the forefront of any election, with a 34 percent support rating according to the latest Gallop Poll.
His party already controls the National Assembly.
He lost to the 2022 presidential election, but staged a political return as the Leader of the main opposition, despite the legal troubles, including the ongoing trials, caused a career.
Labor Minister Kim Moon-Su.
While voting about nine percent, he leads a packet of Challengers of the People’s People’s Power Party, including former party chief Han Dong-Hoon.
Millions of Korean people told the constitutional court last Friday about their decision on television, which snatched the office of this.
Yun sent armed soldiers in a bid in Parliament to prevent MPs from voting, which the court said that the amount of deployment of soldiers for “political objectives”.
The second is the second South Korean leader to be impered by the court after Park Gune-Hai in 2017.
South Korea has spent four months since the martial law announcement without an effective state head.
The leadership came during a series of vacuum crisis and headwind, including an aviation disaster and the deadliest forest fire in the history of the country.
Last week, South Korea was slammed with a 25 percent tariff, which was carried out by President Donald Trump to export to the leading partner for the United States after unveiling the global, so -called mutual levy.
Yun also faced a separate criminal test on allegations of rebellion on Marshall Law Boli.
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