South Korea opposition says ruling party staged 'second coup'

After an impeachment ballot against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol failed connected Saturday, absorption lawmakers person accused his ruling enactment of staging a "second coup" by clinging connected to power.

Tens of thousands of radical had travel retired successful protest, calling for Yoon's resignation oregon impeachment aft helium shocked the state with a martial instrumentality declaration past week.

But the ballot to impeach Yoon failed and the ruling People Power Party (PPP) said alternatively that its enactment person and premier curate would tally the state until the president's "orderly exit".

The determination has been criticised arsenic unconstitutional by the absorption Democratic Party, which has vowed to clasp impeachment votes against Yoon each Saturday.

In a nationalist code connected Sunday, PPP person Han Dong-hoon said Yoon would nary longer beryllium progressive successful overseas and home affairs until his aboriginal resignation - adding that Prime Minister Han Duck-soo would negociate authorities affairs successful the meantime.

"The President volition not beryllium progressive successful immoderate authorities affairs including diplomacy earlier his exit," said enactment person Han.

However, Democratic Party level person Park Chan-dae described the projected program arsenic "an illegal, unconstitutional 2nd insurrection and a 2nd coup".

Representative Kim Min-seok of the Democratic Party had likewise criticised the plan, saying "nobody gave" PPP person Han the powerfulness to marque specified decisions.

"The Prime Minister and the ruling party's announcement that they would jointly workout the powers of the president, which nary 1 has fixed them, is intelligibly unconstitutional" helium said, according to a Korea Herald report.

On societal media, galore South Koreans voiced their concerns, saying determination is simply a deficiency of clarity connected who is starring the country.

The Ministry of National Defence confirmed astatine a briefing connected Monday that the president retains bid of the equipped forces. That means successful the lawsuit of immoderate overseas argumentation incidents, including immoderate imaginable menace from North Korea, Yoon is still, successful theory, capable to marque enforcement decisions.

"The president tin instrumentality the pb again immoderate clip helium changes his mind," governmental subject prof Shin Yul of Myongji University told The Korea Herald.

"No 1 volition beryllium capable to halt him, if Yoon insists."

On Saturday Yoon made his archetypal quality since the martial instrumentality declaration, pledging that helium would not enforce different martial instrumentality order, and apologising for the "anxiety and inconvenience" caused by his declaration.

However, the absorption has insisted that they "will not springiness up" connected impeaching Yoon.

"We volition decidedly instrumentality this state to mean by Christmas and the extremity of the twelvemonth and springiness it to you arsenic a Christmas and end-of-year gift," Democratic Party person Lee Jae-myung told a disappointed assemblage aft Saturday's failed impeachment attempt.

He again urged Yoon to resign connected Monday, telling a property league that Yoon's actions were "destroying" South Korea and its economy.

Additional reporting by Yuna Ku successful Seoul