HAS evoke, the scene of this Friday, January 3 seems ubuesque: a deposed president, barricaded in his home, ordered by the authorities responsible for his arrest to cooperate, and only owed his salvation to his presidential security service, which obliges the officers to turn back. However, this is only a new episode of the political chaos that has reigned for several weeks in South Korea, where the deposed president, Yoon Suk-yeol, is trying hard to cling to power.
We have to go back a month to understand the genesis of this inextricable situation. On December 3, 2024, the South Korean head of state decreed martial law, in the name, he explained on the YTN television channel, of protecting the country “from the threat of North Korean communist forces” . Yoon Suk-yeol quickly finds his back against the wall, under heavy fire from the opposition he tried to muzzle. Under pressure, he repealed martial law and was threatened with dismissal.
This was voted on by Parliament on December 14, and since then, the situation has hardly improved. At the same time, the Constitutional Court launched the examination of the impeachment of the president, an examination which lasted a maximum of six months. Two days later, Han Dong-hoon, head of the ruling People's Power Party (PPP), announced that he was leaving his post, offering his “sincere apologies to all those who suffered due to martial law.”
The interim president dismissed in turn
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