South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s fate remains in the balance after the suspended leader failed to appear at the first day of his impeachment trial Tuesday following weeks of evading arrest, delaying what is set to be a dramatic political showdown.

The trial of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was set to start on Tuesday with oral arguments over his short-lived bid to impose martial law which threw the country into the worst political chaos in decades.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday opened the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, but quickly adjourned the first hearing after he didn’t show up