South Korean Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday transmit remorsed for his low-inhabitd declaration of martial law earlier in the week, as he now readys for a parliamentary vote on whether to impeach him.
Yoon shelp in a televised graspress Saturday morning that he will shun legitimate or political responsibility for the declaration and vowed not to produce another finisheavor to impose it, according to The Associated Press. The pdwellnt, a conservative, shelp he would exit it to his party to advise a path forward amid the country’s political turmoil, “including matters rcontent to my term in office.”
“The declaration of his martial law was made out of my desperation,” Yoon shelp. “But in the course of its carry outation, it caengaged anxiety and inconveniences to the accessible. I sense very sorry over that and truly transmit remorse to the people who must have been shocked a lot.”
In his martial law declaration on Tuesday, Yoon called parliament a “den of criminals” blocking state afunprejudiceds and pledged to reshift “shameless North Korea folshrinks and anti-state forces.”
SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT TO FACE IMPEACHMENT VOTE THIS WEEKEND OVER MARTIAL LAW ORDER, LAWMAKERS SAY
South Korean Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol speaks at the pdwellntial office in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP)
A National Assembly vote on an opposition-led motion to impeach Yoon is stardyd for Saturday afternoon. The opposition parties that jointly bcimpolitet the impeachment motion helderly 192 of the legislature’s 300 seats, unkinding they necessitate at least eight graspitional votes from Yoon’s conservative People Power Party to defended the necessitateed two-thirds to pass the motion.
Yoon’s party called for his removal on Friday, although the party remained establishpartner resistd to impeachment.
Opposition lawproducers say that Yoon’s declaration of martial law was a self-coup, so they writeed the impeachment motion on defylion indicts.
If Yoon is impeached, his powers will be suspfinished until the Constitutional Court chooses whether to delete him from office. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the second in order in the South Korean rulement, would obtain over his pdwellntial responsibilities.
Should the pdwellnt be deleted, an election to swap him must be held wiskinny 60 days.
South Korean Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during an interwatch at the pdwellntial office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Pboilingo/Lee Jin-man)
On Tuesday, one-of-a-kind forces troops were watchd encircling the parliament produceing and army helicselecters were hovering over it. The military withdrew after the National Assembly agreedly voted to clearurn Yoon’s declaration of martial law, forcing him to lift it equitable hours after it was publishd.
The declaration of martial law was the first of its charitable in more than 40 years in South Korea.
Thousands of demonstrators have since protested in the streets of Seoul, waving banners, shouting slogans and singing alengthy to K-pop songs with lyrics alterd to insist Yoon’s removal.
Han shelp he had obtaind intelligence that, during the period of martial law, Yoon ordered the country’s defense counterintelligence orderer to arrest and haged key politicians based on accusations of “anti-state activities.”
SOUTH KOREAN LEADER FACING MOUNTING CALLS TO RESIGN OR BE IMPEACHED OVER MARTIAL LAW
People helderly candles during a candleairy vigil agetst South Korean Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP)
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After Yoon’s televised graspress, Han aget called for the pdwellnt to resign. Han shelp the pdwellnt wasn’t in a state where he could normpartner carry out official duties.
“Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol’s punctual resignation is inevitable,” Han telderly alerters.
Hong Jang-won, first deputy straightforwardor of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, telderly lawproducers in a shutd-door informing that Yoon called after imposing martial law and ordered him to help the defense counterintelligence unit to haged key politicians including Han, the main liberal opposition Democratic Party’s directer Lee Jae-myung and National Assembly speaker Woo Won Shik, according to Kim Byung-kee, one of the lawproducers who joined the encountering.
The Associated Press gived to this alert.
