DIRECT. South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol calls for resignation after country’s brief martial law

DIRECT. South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol calls for resignation after country’s brief martial law
DIRECT. South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol calls for resignation after country’s brief martial law

“Yoon Suk-yeol must resign!” Calls for the departure of the South Korean president are increasing on Wednesday, December 4, after the leader attempted to impose martial law in his country. Yoon Suk-yeol, whose popularity was already extremely low, was pushed out by her political opponents and members of her own party, and protesters gathered in Seoul. The opposition threatened on Wednesday to initiate impeachment proceedings if the head of state does not step down “immediately”. Follow our live stream.

Yoon Suk-yeol dropped by his own camp. The People’s Power Party, from which the president comes, estimated on Wednesday that the tenant of the Blue House should “be accountable”. Yoon Suk-yeol “must explain this tragic situation immediately and in detail”demanded on television the head of his training, Han Dong-hoon. The president’s chief of staff and key advisers met in the morning “presented their resignation en masse”according to the national Yonhap agency.

The opposition will file a complaint for “rebellion”. The Democratic Party, the main opposition party in South Korea, announced a complaint against the president, his ministers of Defense and Interior, as well as “key figures in the army and police, such as the [général brièvement nommé] Martial Law Commander and Police Chief.

A call for an unlimited strike. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the country’s largest inter-union organization with some 1.2 million members, has called for a “unlimited general strike” until Yoon Suk-yeol resigned. She believes that he “signed his own end to power”. For now, the leader has not reappeared in public.


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