Democratic Party, Tearfully Requests Vote on Yoon Impeachment Bill... "Earnestly Pleads"

Park Sung-jun "I plan to visit the People Power Party"
Mo Kyung-jong "This is the first time I've experienced martial law in this lifetime"

The floor leadership of the Democratic Party of Korea and young lawmakers appealed on the afternoon of the 7th for the People Power Party lawmakers to "vote" as they left the plenary hall during the session to attend a party meeting. Some lawmakers showed tears and urged for a choice beyond party lines. The National Assembly is currently conducting a vote on the impeachment motion against President Yoon Seok-yeol.

Park Seong-jun, Deputy Floor Leader for Operations of the Democratic Party, met with reporters at the entrance of the plenary hall during the vote on President Yoon's impeachment motion and criticized, "People Power Party lawmakers, as politicians and representatives of the people, are abandoning their authority and becoming a group defending 'the ringleader of the rebellion' Yoon Seok-yeol." He continued, "Yoon Seok-yeol is the one who gave the order to point guns at many citizens," and said, "The National Assembly has the responsibility and duty to severely punish and condemn the ringleader of the rebellion." He also said, "We intend to politely request the People Power Party lawmakers," and "We plan to visit the People Power Party shortly."

Park Chan-dae, the floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is voting on the re-deliberation agenda of the special investigation law for First Lady Kim Keon-hee at the National Assembly plenary session on the 7th. Photo by Kim Hyun-min

Kim Yong-min, Deputy Floor Leader for Policy, said, "When the martial law troops entered the National Assembly with guns, 18 People Power Party lawmakers entered the plenary hall despite feeling a threat to their lives to lift the martial law." He appealed, "At that time, didn't they come here out of patriotism thinking about the country and the people, not their political interests?"

As the floor leadership's remarks concluded, when Kim Sang-wook, a People Power Party lawmaker, entered the plenary hall to participate in the vote, Democratic Party lawmakers erupted in thunderous applause. In response, young Democratic Party lawmakers Jeon Yong-gi, Mo Gyeong-jong, Baek Seung-ah, and Yong Hye-in, leader of the Basic Income Party, teared up and said in front of the plenary hall, "Young lawmakers, this is a matter on which the future of the Republic of Korea depends," with tears in their eyes.

Kim Sang-wook, a member of the People Power Party, is receiving encouragement from opposition party members including Kim Seon-min of the National Innovation Party after participating in the vote on the impeachment motion against President Yoon Seok-yeol at the National Assembly plenary session on the afternoon of the 7th. Photo by Yonhap News

Mo Gyeong-jong, chairman of the Democratic Party's Youth Committee, said, "Our generation is the first to experience martial law," and "I never imagined that a situation called 'martial law,' which I never wanted to experience in my lifetime, would come." Furthermore, he earnestly appealed, "Fellow People Power Party lawmakers, colleagues born in the same era and living in the same era as I do, I sincerely ask you," requesting participation in the vote.

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