The Party Leader Wants to Strip President Yoon of Power

The pressure is increasing on South Korea's President Yoon Suk-Yeol to resign. The risk of him being impeached is growing. The leader of the ruling party demands that Yoon be immediately stripped of his power, as he poses a "threat to the people and the country". The opposition leader questions the president's mental state.

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The Party Leader Wants to Strip President Yoon of Power
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Considering the facts that have now come to light, I consider it necessary to immediately suspend President Yoon from his duties, to protect the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and its people, said party leader Han Dong-Hoon at a crisis meeting with the People's Party leadership.

According to Han, it is about the president asking the head of counter-intelligence to arrest leading politicians the other day. This happened in connection with Yoon shocking the country and the world late on Tuesday and declaring a state of emergency with accompanying war laws.

He was forced to back down just six hours later, after the 190 members who quickly gathered in parliament unanimously voted against.

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On Friday, rumors emerged that a second state of emergency was on its way from Yoon, who has not been seen since he was forced to back down from the first.

Han Dong-Hoon has repeated demands in recent days that the president leave the party, but not, until now, demanded that he be stripped of his powers as president and resign. It is unclear whether Han Dong-Hoon speaks for the entire party.

The background is that Yoon refuses to acknowledge that he has done anything wrong and wants to stay on as president.

Questions his sanity

Opposition leader Lee Jae-Myung questions the president's sanity on Friday and promises to do everything to get him impeached soon.

He questions "the mental state of the president who decided to do something that no one understands, rather than the fact that he did it".

There is a great risk that he could do completely incomprehensible things in security, defense, economic, and foreign policy issues.

On Saturday, a vote, initiated by the opposition, will take place in parliament on whether to impeach the president.

On Thursday, the ruling party announced that they would unanimously vote against it. But Friday's turnaround and reference to new disturbing facts may mean that there is a majority for impeaching Yoon. At least eight of the ruling party's 108 members must vote in favor of impeachment.

South Korea's Defense Ministry announces that three commanders involved in soldiers from a special task force entering parliament when the president declared a state of emergency have been suspended from their duties.

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