Victorious outlet of the presidential election of Wednesday, March 9, former Prosecutor Yoon Seok-Youll will promote a more pro-American policy than his predecessor, which should cause some stiffening of South Korea to Beijing and Pyongyang.
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With the short victory of the conservative opposition candidate Yoon Seok-Youll, South Korea renews more liberal economic policy, a rapprochement with the United States and Japan, and stiffening vis-à-vis From North Korea and China. According to the results of the vote announced at the early morning of Thursday, March 10, Mr. Yoon won with 48.56% of the votes, against 47.83% to his Democrat rival, Lee Jae-Myung. In his victory speech, the former prosecutor without political experience has insisted on national unity: “independently of their region, camp or class, the inhabitants of South Korea are equal citizens and must be treated Fairly, “said the one who will succeed the blue house (South Korean presidency) in the democrat Moon Jae-in.
Pure product of the South Korean elite, Mr. Yoon was born in Seoul in 1960. His father is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Yonsei University where he created the statistical department. His mother taught at the very famous girl for girls ehwa.
Law graduate of the prestigious Seoul University, the new leader put nine years to pass the exam from the bar. It would have been put on a “blacklist” for playing, in 1980, the role of a prosecutor in a simulacrum of the authoritarian President Chun Doo-Hwan (1931-2021), in power during the massacre of protesters of the movement Proposals of Gwangju (southwestern South Korea), in May 1980. During this staging with others from his comrades, Mr. Yoon had claimed the death penalty for the leader.
A very popular attorney
Officially became prosecutor in 1994 in anti-corruption services, the one his colleagues judge “extrovert and faithful in friendship” does not hesitate to brave the powers in place. Under the Progressive Presidents Kim Dae-Jung (1998-2003) and Roh Moo-Hyun (2003-2008), he stops the number two of the national police and relatives of power. In 2006, he impurs for misappropriation the President of the Conglomerate Hyundai, Chung Moon-Koo. He then investigated the Conservative President Lee Myung-Bak (2008-2013), one of whose partners had been involved in a corruption scandal, and then on the former head of state Park Geun-Hye (2013- 2017), of which it contributes to the dismissal. Forgiving end 2021, the former President has spent four years in prison for corruption and abuse of power.
Appreciating his neutrality, the outgoing president Moon Jae-in appoints his future successor in 2017 at the head of the powerful Parquet of Seoul and, in 2019, Attorney General. This does not prevent the imperative to tackle the administration in place, contributing to the fall of the Minister of Justice, Cho Kuk. This case is worth a great popularity within the conservative opposition in search of renewal after the Park scandal. In 2021, he started in the presidential race, as independent and under the label of the People’s Power Party (PPP), the main component of the opposition.
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