Overview
- The Cabinet, which approved the motion Monday, started a 20-day public notice and a 60-day deadline for the National Assembly to vote.
- President Lee Jae Myung, speaking Tuesday at a leaders’ meeting, urged the People Power Party to support the revision.
- The draft would tighten martial law rules by requiring swift parliamentary approval and voiding martial law if approval does not come within 48 hours.
- The text would add the 1979 Busan–Masan protests and the 1980 Gwangju uprising to the preamble, which now cites only the 1960 April 19 Movement.
- The proposal needs 197 of 295 votes and then a national referendum that requires majority turnout and approval, yet PPP leaders oppose the push and a June 3 vote is only possible if the Assembly acts in early May.