{"id":6088,"date":"2024-12-06T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/south-koreas-ruling-party-leader-appears-to-throw-weight-behind-presidential-impeachment-efforts-in-dramatic-reversal\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T04:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T04:00:59","slug":"south-koreas-ruling-party-leader-appears-to-throw-weight-behind-presidential-impeachment-efforts-in-dramatic-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/south-koreas-ruling-party-leader-appears-to-throw-weight-behind-presidential-impeachment-efforts-in-dramatic-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s ruling party leader appears to throw weight behind presidential impeachment efforts in dramatic reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The head of South Korea\u2019s ruling party said Friday it is necessary to suspend the president\u2019s constitutional powers and suggested the party would change its earlier opposition to President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s impeachment over his declaration of martial law.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The People Power Party leader Han Dong-hoon told reporters on Friday that he had received \u201ccredible evidence\u201d that Yoon had attempted to use troops to arrest key political figures \u201cunder the pretext of them being anti-state forces\u201d during the president\u2019s short-lived martial decree on Tuesday evening.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cYesterday, I stated that I would work to prevent the passage of this impeachment motion to avoid unprepared chaos and harm to the people and our supporters. However, in light of these newly emerging facts, I have concluded that it is necessary to suspend President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s powers promptly to protect South Korea and its people,\u201d Han said, compounding the pressure building on the country\u2019s leader ahead of a looming impeachment vote in parliament.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cIf President Yoon continues to hold the presidency, there is a significant risk that extreme actions like this martial law declaration could be repeated, putting South Korea and its citizens in grave danger,\u201d Han added. \u201cI firmly believe that now is the time to think solely of South Korea and its people.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Han, who has vocally criticized the president over his unexpected decree, said he met with Yoon on Wednesday and told him that what happened Tuesday evening had \u201cleft a big scar on Korea and our party.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Some South Korean lawmakers have been camping out in the parliamentary building since Tuesday evening amid fears that Yoon could potentially declare martial law again, after plunging the country into political chaos and uncertainty after his declaration, which lasted just six hours, earlier in the week.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Yoon faces growing calls to resign as lawmakers debate moving forward on a motion to impeach the president, with a vote expected in the next two days.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Under the South Korean constitution, an impeachment motion must be approved by two thirds of the 300-person legislature to pass onto consideration in one of the country\u2019s highest courts, the Constitutional Court. The Democratic Party, minor opposition parties and independents have a combined 192 seats, meaning they would need the support of at least eight members of Yoon\u2019s People Power Party to pass the motion.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of South Korea\u2019s ruling party said Friday it is necessary to suspend the president\u2019s constitutional powers and suggested the party would change its earlier opposition to President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s impeachment over his declaration of martial law. The People Power Party leader Han Dong-hoon told reporters on Friday that he had received \u201ccredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}