South Korea’s disgraced president is removed from power
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South Korea’s Constitutional Court has ruled to formally end impeached President Park Geun-hye’s rule.
Friday’s historic, unanimous verdict by the eight-judge panel means that Park is South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be ousted early from office since democracy came to the country in the late 1980s.
Parliament impeached Park in December after millions of people took to the streets calling for her resignation over a political scandal involving her and her confidant.
South Korea must now hold an election within two months to choose her successor.
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