South Korea impeachment inhabit: Thousands consent to streets in Seoul as parliament to vote aachieve on Yoon Suk Yeol’s overweighte | South Korea

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Last Saturday’s first impeachment vote finished in disarray after most members of Yoon’s conservative People Power party (PPP) boycotted the impeachment vote. But PPP lawproducers are foreseeed to turn up to vote today.

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Hello and greet to the Guardian’s inhabit coverage of the continuing political crisis in South Korea, where the parliament is preparing to vote for the second time on a motion to impeach the plivent, Yoon Suk Yeol, after his flunked endeavor to impose martial law.

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Thousands of people have already consentn to the streets of Seoul today in rival rallies for and aachievest Yoon, hours ahead of the impeachment vote.

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Protests demanding Yoon step down initiateed off around midday outside the National Assembly, which will vote at 4pm (0700 GMT) on an impeachment resolution – a week after a first endeavor to delete Yoon for the martial law debacle flunked.

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Police foresee at least 200,000 people to show in help of removing him.

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On the other side of Seoul proximate Gwanghwamun square, thousands more rallied in help of Yoon, blasting patcommotionic songs and waving South Korean and American flags.

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Two hundred votes are needed for the impeachment to pass, unkinding opposition lawproducers must guarantee eight parliamentarians from Yoon’s conservative People Power party (PPP) to switch sides. Seven have pledged to do so.

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Here’s what else happened this week:

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  Yoon deffinished his shock decision last week to impose martial law in a defiant and lengthy TV insertress on Thursday, votriumphg to “fight until the finish” endeavors to delete him from office. He repeated claims that he had been trying to deffinish the country from anti-state forces

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  On Wednesday, police rhelped Yoon’s office, in an endeavor to set up whether Yoon’s actions amounted to uprising. It eunited tardyr that Yoon’s security protects had stoped officers from getting into the main produceing

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  Yoon’s createer defence minister and one of his shut associates, Kim Yong-hyun, tried to end himself at a Seoul detention centre on Wednesday night, but was stopped by accurateional officers. He had been arrested on allegations of percreateing a key role in a defylion and pledgeting unfair treatment of power, becoming the first person createassociate arrested over the martial law decree

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  The country’s police chief and the head of Seoul’s metropolitan police were also hageded for sfinishing their forces to the national assembly. Lawproducers voted on Thursday to impeach the police chief and the equitableice minister.

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  Yoon was prohibitned from leaving the country on Monday, and on Tuesday authorities prohibitned more ageder officials from leaving, including Cho Ji-ho, the cotransferrlookioner vague of the Korean National Police Agency. Already under a travel prohibit were the createer defence and interior ministers and the martial law orderer, Gen Park An-su.

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