South Korea’s ruling party vows to remove Yoon from power to “restore democracy”

The ruling party of South Korea This Sunday he reaffirmed his position planning to depose President Yoon Suk-yeol of power with the aim of “minimizing chaos,” “stabilizing the political situation,” and “restoring liberal democracy” following the president’s declaration of martial law.

The Conservative Party will ensure that Yoon steps down from his duties as president “in an early and orderly manner,” leader Han Dong-hoon said in a statement to the media at the party’s headquarters in Seoul today.

The People’s Power Party (PPP) has thus repeated the plan that had been in the works since the day before, when the same party managed to disqualify a motion of censure from the opposition, which has a majority in the National Assembly. Yoon.

The president, facing social and political calls for him to relinquish power since the volatile martial law he declared last Tuesday that plunged the country into the worst political crisis in its recent history, has retrenched his position made available to the party before the vote. , in a televised speech.

The PPP leader himself has stated that “the majority of people believe that Yoon should leave office” and that they do not consider him capable of “governing normally” for the approximately two and a half years of his remaining mandate.

Han also noted that until Yoon’s resignation is formalized, the president “will cease to assume his duties in state affairs, including diplomacy,” a move that appears intended to address the international community’s concerns about the political to remove turbulence that crosses the Asian country.

According to the ruling party’s plan, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will take over Yoon’s duties until he is finally removed from power.

However, the main opposition force, the Democratic Party (PD), has expressed its rejection of the Prime Minister assuming Yoon’s state functions by decision of the PPP, something they described as “unconstitutional.”