Earlier on Friday, Finance Minister Choi warned that impeaching the acting president would seriously damage the country's economic credibility.“The economy and the people's livelihoods are walking on thin ice under a national state of emergency and it cannot cope with any greater political uncertainty that will result from another acting president assuming the acting presidency,” he said.‘ANTI-STATE FORCES’Yoon shocked the country and the world with a late-night announcement on Dec.3 that he was imposing martial law to overcome political deadlock and root out “anti-state forces.” The military deployed special forces to the National Assembly, the election commission, and the office of a liberal YouTube commentator.
However, Han said in a televised address on Thursday that he would hold off on appointing the nominees until the rival parties – Yoon’s governing People Power Party and the opposition bloc agree on whether he has the authority to do so as the acting president.
Han Duck-soo, South Korea’s acting president and prime minister, was impeached in Parliament on Friday amid a deepening political crisis battering the already weak economy, Asia’s fourth-largest.
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