South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Saturday to fight for his political future after being impeached in a second vote by parliament over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that shocked the nation.
The Constitutional Court will decide whether to remove Yoon in the next six months. If he is removed from office, early elections will be called.
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, appointed by Yoon, became acting president while Yoon remains in office but with his presidential powers suspended halfway through his five-year term.
“Even if I stop for now, the journey I have been on with people over the past two and a half years towards the future must never stop. I will never give up,” Yoon said.
She is the second consecutive conservative president to be impeached in South Korea. Park Geun-hye was removed from office in 2017.
Yoon survived the first impeachment vote last weekend, when his party largely boycotted the vote, depriving the House of a quorum.
He shocked the nation on December 3 when he gave the military broad emergency powers to root out what he called “anti-state forces” and overcome obstructionist political opponents.
He rescinded the statement just six hours later, after Parliament dared troops and police to vote against the decree. But it has thrown the country into a constitutional crisis and triggered widespread calls for his resignation for breaking the law.
Yoon later apologized to the nation but defended his decision and resisted calls for his resignation.
Source: Terra
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