Rep. Choo Kyung-ho of the main opposition People Power Party speaks before a parliamentary vote on a motion for his arrest at the National Assembly in western Seoul on Thursday. (Yonhap)
Rep. Choo Kyung-ho of the main opposition People Power Party speaks before a parliamentary vote on a motion for his arrest at the National Assembly in western Seoul on Thursday. (Yonhap)

A Seoul court is set to hold an arrest warrant hearing Tuesday for People Power Party Rep. Choo Kyung-ho over his alleged role in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed imposition of martial law.

The hearing is scheduled to take place at the Seoul Central District Court at 3 p.m. to determine whether Choo's arrest is warranted on charges of playing a key role in an insurrection.

The charge is related to allegations Choo, then floor leader of the PPP, obstructed his party's lawmakers from taking part in a parliamentary vote to lift the martial law decree after it was imposed on Dec. 3.

The National Assembly approved a motion for Choo's arrest Thursday. By law, sitting lawmakers are immune from arrest while parliament is in session and can only be put under arrest with consent from the Assembly.

Choo, once considered a key ally of Yoon, is accused of deliberately and repeatedly changing the venue of an emergency party meeting on the night of Dec. 3 at the request of the then president.

Due to the changes, only 18 of the PPP's 108 lawmakers took part in the parliamentary vote to lift Yoon's decree, which passed unanimously early the next morning among the 190 lawmakers present.

Choo has rejected the allegations, arguing that he changed the party meeting's venue from the National Assembly to the party's headquarters as police restricted access to the parliament compound. (Yonhap)