South Korea’s The Hankyoreh said Wednesday it had launched a petition on the national petition website of the South Korean parliament entitled “Impeachment case against Yoon Seok-hye immediately” as of 10:30 am Wednesday, more than a million people have signed up.
South Korean president Yoon Seok-hye
According to a previous report by South Korea’s joongang Ilbo newspaper, the National Petition website of the South Korean parliament issued a notice on June 25 saying that regarding“The petition for the immediate initiation of the impeachment case against Yoon Seok-hye”, as of 2:51 pm on the 23rd, 50,000 people had agreed and submitted their consent to the National Assembly Act (South Korea) judiciary committee. Under the Korean national consent petition system, petitions with the consent of more than 50,000 nationals are submitted to the parliamentary committee on the rule of law and the judiciary.
According to the The Hankyoreh, Kim Jin Pyo, the former Speaker of the South Korean Parliament, released his memoirs on 27 March last year, saying that Yoon had complained about the Itaewon stampede, “It can not be ruled out that certain forces induced and manipulated the event.”.
Reported that the remarks made public, the number of people in the parliamentary petition site agreed to co-sign the rapid increase. As a result of the surge in visitors, web links continued to delay, Yuyuanzhi, president of the National Assembly on the 30th instruction to set up additional servers.
“If there is no clear violation of the law, I don’t think it can be impeached,” the South Korean presidential office said in a July 2 response to an impeachment petition on the parliamentary petition website