South Korean away president Yoon Suk Yeol appeared at the sixth hearing at the Constitutional Court on Thursday (6), with three witnesses expected to testify during the day.
The country has plunged into a constitutional crisis that also saw Prime Minister Han Duck Soo to go through the impeachment process.
Prosecutors indicated Yoon separately on accusations of leading an insurrection. and is in a detention center.
At the previous hearing, held on Tuesday (4), Yoon said he had no sense to discuss whether he gave orders to remove the gathered legislators to vote to suspend when “nothing really happened.”
The Constitutional Court is reviewing the impeachment of Yoon by Parliament on December 14 and will decide whether to remove it from office permanently or reintegrate it.
If it is removed, a new presidential election should be held within 60 days.
Yoon indictment
South Korean prosecutors indicated Yoon Suk Yeol on accusations of insurrection due to their brief statement of martial law.
Yoon tried to impose martial law in early December, a measure that left the country in political turmoil and, to many, brought back painful memories of the country’s authoritarian past.
The president justified the declaration accusing the main opposition party to sympathize with North Korea and anti -state activities, but the statement was rapidly annulled by Parliament.
Voted to be accused by Parliament and has been in custody since he was arrested last week.
Prosecutors announced the accusations on Sunday night (26) at local time, making Yoon the first acting president in the history of the country to be indicted.
During the parliamentary hearings, Yoon’s commanders witnessed that they received direct orders to break into the doors of Parliament to “drag out” legislators sitting inside. Yoon denied it.
Shortly after declaring the martial law, Yoon allegedly told the first deputy director of the National Intelligence Service, Hong Jang-Won, that he should take the opportunity to “arrest” a list of 14 political and legal figures, including the opposition leader , and “clean everything”.
Authority to launch a counterintelligence investigation and “support it with funds and personally”.
The details were first revealed to reporters by legislators informed about the conversation, and Hong confirmed CNN the veracity of the content.
