(Seoul) Seoul mayor Park Won-soon, long regarded as a potential presidential candidate in South Korea, was found dead hours after his daughter reported her disappearance, announced Friday the police.
Posted on July 9 2020 at 11 h 55 Updated at 13 h 22
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A complaint was lodged with the police against him Wednesday by a staff member of the town hall of the South Korean capital, for sexual harassment according to media.
Mr. Park's 55 year old body was found in a mountain north of Seoul, police said, including hundreds. agents participated in search operations.
The mayor had left his home after saying what sounded like “his last words”, his daughter told Thursday afternoon to the police his daughter who added that his phone had been cut and that he was unreachable for several hours.
An emblematic figure of the ruling Democratic Party (center left), Park Won-soon ruled from 2011 the gigantic capital of South Korea, which has about ten million people, almost a fifth of the country's population.
He was considered a potential candidate to succeed the current head of state, Moon Jae-in, during the presidential election of 2022.
If the suicide hypothesis were confirmed, he would be the highest South Korean political official to have killed himself since former President Roh Moo-hyun threw himself from the top of a cliff in 2009, after being questioned on allegations of corruption against members of his family.
