“He has paved his own path to impeachment with this.”
: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faced demands to resign on Wednesday over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law that was voted down by lawmakers and brought thousands of protesters to the streets.
South Korea’s main opposition party -- whose lawmakers jumped fences and tussled with security forces so they could vote to overturn the law -- demanded that Yoon step down immediately over the attempted “insurrection”. Yoon backed down after 190 lawmakers defied security forces to get into the assembly to unanimously vote to oppose his declaration, which he made late on Tuesday night citing the threat of North Korea and “anti-state forces”.“Just a moment ago, there was a demand from the National Assembly to lift the state of emergency, and we have withdrawn the military that was deployed for martial law operations,“ Yoon said in a televised address around 4:30 am .
Lim Myeong-pan, 55, told AFP that Yoon’s decision to rescind martial law did not absolve him of wrongdoing. “Our National Assembly has become a haven for criminals, a den of legislative dictatorship that seeks to paralyse the judicial and administrative systems and overturn our liberal democratic order,“ Yoon said.
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