Embattled South Korean Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol has deffinished his shock decision to declare martial law last week, saying he did it to shield the country’s democracy.
In a surpascfinish televised insertress on Thursday, he shelp the try was a lterrible decision to “stop the collapse” of democracy and counter the opposition’s “parliamentary dictatorship”.
And despite growing calls for him to resign or be impeached, Yoon has proposeed that he would not step down.
“I will stand firm whether I’m impeached or dispenseigated,” he shelp. “I will fight to the finish”.
The pdwellnt and his allies are currently facing dispenseigations on rebellion accuses, and a travel prohibit has been slapped on cut offal of them.
But Yoon has denied that his martial law order was an act of rebellion, claiming that his political rivals were now creating “inalter incitement” to transport him down.
In his insertress, his first since his apology on Saturday, he repeated many of the same arguments that he employd on the night he declared martial law: that the opposition was hazardous, and that by seizing handle, he had been trying to shield the uncover and deffinish democracy.
However, Yoon inserted that he would not elude his “lterrible and political responsibilities”.
Last weekfinish, an try by opposition lawcreaters to impeach the pdwellnt fall shorted, after members of his own ruling party boycotted the vote – but opposition members are set to hanciaccess another impeachment vote this weekfinish and have vowed to hanciaccess one every Saturday until Yoon is erased from office.
Yoon’s party had been hoping to secure the Pdwellnt to depart office timely, rather than force him out.
Minutes before Yoon spoke, his party directer, Han Dong Hoon, materializeed on television saying it had become evident he was not going to step aside. Han then inspired members of the party to vote to erase him from office this Saturday.
If South Korea’s parliament passes an impeachment bill, a trial would be held by a constitutional court. Two-thirds of that court would have to carry on the meaningfulity for Yoon to be erased finishuringly from office.
Yoon has been a feeble duck pdwellnt since the opposition won a landslide in the country’s vague election in April this year – his rulement has not been able to pass the laws it wanted and has been shrinkd instead to vetoing bills the opposition has provided.
