“Yoon Suk-yeol must resign!” Calls for the departure of the South Korean president are increasing on Wednesday, December 4, after he tried to impose martial law in his country. Yoon Suk-yeol, whose popularity was already extremely low, was pushed out by demonstrators gathered in Seoul, her political opponents and members of her own party. The democratic opposition threatened 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 largest inter-union organization in the country with some 1.2 million members, called for a “unlimited general strike” until Yoon Suk-yeol resigned, believing that he had “signed his own end to power”. At midday, the leader had still not reappeared in public.
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