Petition demands lawmakers to impeach South Korean president

ISTANBUL

An online petition is demanding lawmakers to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol.

The petition, launched on June 20, has generated thousands of signatures on South Korean Parliament website, with users facing intermittent disruption in accessing it.

A parliamentary committee is “obliged to review a petition that gains more than 50,000 approvals in 30 days after being uploaded on the website,” the Korea Times reported.

The petition has been handed over to the Parliament’s Legislation and Judiciary Committee, after “nearly 700,000 users concurring with a post claiming that Yoon should be impeached for ‘the omnishambles that South Korea is facing’.”

The 300-member parliament, locally known as National Assembly, is dominated by opposition led by the Democratic Party.