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Reforms were introduced after the revolution of 2014 but there are fears that Zelensky's abortive bid this summer to change the law governing the anti-graft agencies could undermine Ukraine's ambitions to join the European Union.

But the abortive fracking efforts of the last decade or so have turned the former Tory MP into a sceptic.

The result of Yoon's abortive martial law attempt was a political maelstrom from which South Korea is still reeling: a constitutional crisis that ended the former president's career and left his PPP in tatters.

His abortive proposal to finagle nominees into office without Senate confirmation alienated legislators whose help he will need over the next four years.

On Saturday morning, four days after Yoon's abortive attempt to declare martial law, the president once again appeared on television.