South Korea opposition parties submit new motion to impeach President Yoon

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has pledged to “fight to the end” after opposition parties submitted a new joint motion to impeach him over a botched martial law bid last week.

The National Assembly said the main liberal opposition Democratic Party and five smaller opposition parties submitted the impeachment motion on Thursday afternoon.

The impeachment vote will take place on Saturday at about 5 PM (08:00 GMT), the parties said. The motion needs to win support from eight members of the ruling People Power Party (PPP) to secure the necessary two-thirds majority.

PPP leader Han Dong-hoon urged party members to attend the meeting and vote “according to their conviction and conscience”.

The move comes after authorities dispatched police to the presidential office compound to “obtain documents and materials”, according to the local Yonhap news agency. A similar attempt was blocked on Wednesday by security guards.
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South Korea’s capital, Seoul, has been rocked by daily protests since December 3, when Yoon stunned the nation by declaring emergency martial law, saying he was acting to protect the country from “threats” posed by North Korea and accused the opposition of being “antistate forces”.

Source: channel1news