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SEOUL Opponents of South Korea’s ousted leader, Park Geun-hye rallied in the capital, Seoul, on Saturday to demand that she be arrested, a day after she was thrown out of office over a corruption scandal involving the country’s conglomerates.
The Constitutional Court ruling on Friday to uphold a parliamentary vote to impeach Park infuriated hundreds of her supporters, two of whom were killed as they tried to break through police lines outside the court.
Park, 65, is South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office.
The court ruling marked a dramatic fall from grace of South Korea’s first woman president and daughter of Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee.
At times, Park and her supporters have bridled at associating her with her father, who seized power in a 1961 coup and ruled for 18 years until he was gunned down by his security chief in 1979.
Park did not appear in court on Friday and did not make any comment after the ruling.
Choi In-sook, a spokeswoman for protesters opposed to Park, told Reuters they were also demanding the resignation of acting president Hwang Kyo-ahn.
Prime Minister Hwang, a Park loyalist, became acting president when parliament voted to impeach her on Dec. 9.
“We strongly request the trial is held again,” said Chung Kwang Yong, a spokesman for organizers of rallies backing Park.