South Korean public in ‘great danger’ if president stays, says party boss

South Korea's ruling enactment main has called for President Yoon Suk Yeol to "suspend his duties soon", saying that citizens could beryllium successful "great danger" if helium remained successful power.

Han Doong-hoon, the person of the People Power Party (PPP), added that his enactment had received "credible evidence" that Yoon had ordered the apprehension of cardinal politicians connected "anti-state charges".

His comments, made astatine an exigency enactment gathering connected Friday, appear to beryllium a departure from his earlier basal that his enactment would artifact the opposition's impeachment motion, which is owed to beryllium enactment to the ballot connected Saturday.

The absorption needs astatine slightest 8 ruling enactment MPs to backmost the impeachment question for it to succeed.

Han expressed concerns that "extreme actions" - specified arsenic the martial instrumentality declaration connected Tueaday - could beryllium repeated if Yoon remains successful office.

"[These will] putting the Republic of Korea and its radical astatine large risk," helium said.

He added that his enactment had learned astir plans to jailhouse the arrested politicians successful a detention centre successful Gwacheon, a metropolis southbound of Seoul.

Meanwhile, ruling enactment MP Cho Kyung-tae became the archetypal ruling enactment MP to publically dependable his enactment for Yoon's impeachment.

"The prime is betwixt lasting connected the broadside of the radical by suspending the president's duties oregon becoming an state of the forces that imposed martial instrumentality is simply a substance for politicians to judge," Cho said.

"I anticipation that each the politicians of the People's Power volition basal connected the broadside of the people," helium said.

Additional reporting by Hosu Lee successful Seoul