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South Korean opposition leader offers to help ease country's political crisis
Participants shout slogans during a rally calling on the Constitutional Court to dismiss the President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul, South Korea, December 15, 2024. The signs read ‘Immediately arrest’

THE leader of South Korea’s opposition today offered to work with the government to defuse the country’s political crisis.

On Saturday the opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach the country’s right-wing President Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law.

Liberal Democratic Party leader Lee Jae Myung, whose party holds a majority in the National Assembly, urged the Constitutional Court to rule swiftly on President Yoon’s impeachment and proposed a special council for policy co-operation between the government and parliament.

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