The interim president of South Korea, Prime Minister Han Duck-Sooo resigned on Thursday, a sign that he plans to run to live the role permanently in the presidential elections of June 3.
Mr. has indicated for weeks that he was considering whether he was running for the June elections, which was called after the President of Political Judgment and the foreign President Yoon Suk Yeol, who had appointed Mr. Han as official number 2 in his administration.
The resignation of Mr. HAN occurred shortly after the country’s Supreme Court issued a ruling that could endanger the presidential offer of Lee Jae-Myung, the presidential candidate of the majority Democratic Party in the country that shows the surveys.
This threat ruling to add uncertainty to an election that South Koreans expect that it ends months of political agitation in the country since Mr. Yoon declared martial law at the end of last year, a short -term episode that led him to be withdrawn from office. Mr. have replaced Mr. Yoon for a while, but then he was accused himself, before being restored as an interim president by the Constitutional Court.
“I have decided to resign to do what I can do and what I should help overcome the crisis facing our nation,” Han said in a statement on Thursday.
Mr. Han did not stop to say that he would apply for president. But his statement on Thursday was considered by the media of South Korea and political circles as a declaration of de facto presidential ambition. Mr. have been expected to call a press conference at the end of this week to make an official of his presidential offer, local media reported.
Previously Thorsday, the country’s Supreme Court revoked a ruling of the lower court that had acquired Mr. Repe of violations of the electoral law, returning the case again. The Supreme Court said in his ruling that Mr. Lee is guilty, but the case against Mr. Lee will not be until the lower court rule again and the Supreme Court reviews that ruling as well.
Mr. Lee’s ability to run for president depends on when the lower court will rule again and what type of penalty will receive if the court considers this time guilty. By law, Mr. Lee will be forbidden to run in the elections for five years if he receives a penalty that a fine of 1 million profits ($ 700).
It was not clear when the lower court will begin to deliberate the case again.
Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling threw a cloud on Mr. Lee’s presidential ambition by allowing his political enemies to ask questions about his qualifications to lead the nation.
Mr. Lee was elected presidential candidate of his party with support on Sunday. He won almost 90 percent of the votes cast by the primary career of his matches.
Mr. Lee has been the favorite for a great margin in public opinion surveys in recent weeks that asked South Kore who favored as president.
Some politicians affiliated with the people Party have been urging Mr. They have run for President. The party, the second largest in the country, will select its candidate on Saturday, and that person and Mr. Han may have to negotiate to decide who should represent the party in the elections. Currently, Mr. Han does not belong to a party.
After the resignation of Mr. Han, the Minister of Finance, Choi Sang-Mok, the next in the row in the Government’s hierarchy, the interim president takes.
