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Impeachment is the quickest and surest way to end the crisis,
said Lee, who narrowly lost to Yoon in the 2022 presidential election The speech was a rationalization of this situation and de facto confession that he has committed rebellion,
PPP leader Han Dong-hoon said It is impossible to commit election fraud with our system,
Whether they impeach me or investigate me, I will stand firm.”
In a defiant televised address on Thursday, Yoon dismissed the idea of voluntary resignation, stressing What the lawmakers must protect is neither Yoon nor the ruling People Power Party but the lives of the people wailing out in the freezing streets,
Impeachment is a must and we must fight relentlessly,
Kim Sung-tae, a 52-year-old worker at a car parts manufacturer, told AFP History will remember and record your decision,
he added, calling upon parliamentarians to vote yes in the impeachment proceedings He argues that he followed the constitutional process of doing so, and so, with a court that does have conservative justices sitting on it, it's not a guarantee, I think, at this point, that he would in fact be convicted,
(He) would instead be replaced – also, in my estimation, unconstitutionally and illegally – by a small group of party members and the prime minister,
At this point, I think it’s much more likely than not (that Saturday’s vote will succeed),
said the Marshall M Bouton Fellow for Asia Studies at international affairs think tank Chicago Council on Global Affairs If they do opt to remove him and say that his impeachment is constitutional and he is officially removed from power, then we would see an election within 60 days,
I would say right now, we’re looking at an 80 per cent chance that impeachment succeeds – probably even more than that,
said Mason Richey, associate professor of international politics at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies He continues to try to appoint a new defence minister. He’s made some other appointments and accepted some other resignations, and clearly he is in control,
Friedhoff told CNA’s Asia First programme Ultimately, the PPP does not want to see Lee come to power. They hate him with a burning passion,
The expectation is that his convictions will be upheld and that will bar him from running for office,
But we've already been surprised so many times by the wild swings back and forth in the saga ever since he declared martial law, so I won't say it's more than 80 per cent, because you never know who might end up changing their mind,
The impeachment process, once it is engaged, is a 180-day window for the Constitutional Court … to reach its decision,
There is no legal basis for this arrangement. We are in a dangerous and chaotic situation,
said Lim Ji-bong, a law professor at Sogang University I hate them both so much right now, but I think I hate the MPs even more than the president,
said a 31-year-old graduate student Chang Yo-hoon, who had joined tens of thousands of others, in freezing temperatures, to voice his disillusionment My party and supporters have called me a traitor,
he said, labeling South Korean politics as "intensely tribal".
