South Korea determines new presidential elections on June 3

South Korea said on Tuesday that it will hold sudden elections on June 3 to choose the successor to former President Yun Suk Yol, who Last week was removed To try to impose martial law.

On Friday, the Constitutional Court of the country rejected the country when its eight judges supported unanimously its isolation by the National Assembly in December.

South Korea has turned its focus on the issue of who should lead the country after months of political turmoil It tested the elasticity of its democracy The weakest of its leadership. Under the law, South Korea must elect a new president within 60 days of the court ruling.

On Monday, the government confirmed on June 3, the election day, as it set it as a national vacation to encourage voters.

In the coming days, the competing political parties will schedule the initial races to choose their presidential candidates by May 12, when the official campaign begins. Anyone who wins the elections will take office immediately-without the country’s typical transition period for two months.

Until then, South Korea should continue to deal with external challenges-including President Donald C. Trump is 25 percent on its goods-under the leadership of an uncomfortable temporary leader, Prime Minister Han Daco.

Lee Jay MongIt is widely expected to win the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, who lost hard in the 2022 elections for Mr. Yun, although many other politicians have expressed their intention to join her primary race.

Mr. Lee was expected to step down as president of the party in the coming days so that he could focus on his presidential attempt. In investigative studies in recent weeks, more South Koreans have expressed their desire for the desire for Mr. Lee as a coming president, with a margin of about 25 percentage points. Mr. Lee at the trial of several criminal charges, including bribery, says that the government of Mr. Yoon has provided political motives.

Who will choose the conservative power party for Mr. Yun is less clear. More than ten politicians, including Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo, showed interest in competition, but no strong care in the forefront has yet emerged-in part because the party has focused until recently its efforts to maintain Mr. Yun as a president.

The overthrow of Mr. Yun was a overwhelming blow to the Power Party: The second conservative president, who was expelled due to the dismissal, and the third conservative president, were successful to confront a criminal indictment before the end of his term. Mr. Yun is also a trial for a rebellion when he sent forces to seize the National Assembly while imposing customary law in December.

The political crisis raised by the bad combat of Mr. Yun and the subsequent accountability left South Korea to forget at a time when North Korea accelerated its nuclear ambitions and Depth With Russia.

The ruling of the Constitutional Court unanimously removed some political uncertainty. However, the crisis revealed a deep intensity in the polarized policy of South Korea, which is likely to continue to appear during the presidential campaign.

In the past four months, people’s power party I converted to narration Driven by right -wing influencers on YouTube and Mr. Yun, who claimed that the South Korean parliamentary elections were forged with the help of Chinese spies, and that progressive leaders like Mr. Lee were the “state anti -state forces” who colluded with North Korea and China to the South Korea alliance with the United States.

Mr. Lee’s party accused its conservative rival of using a distortion campaign to spread fear and hatred, and to turn attention from the catastrophic Mr. Yoon.