More than 40 000 citizens took part in the rally, chanting slogan "Park Geun Hye, Step Down."

Speakers there stressed that the movement for ousting Park is a patriotic movement to set right the wrong politics and defend justice.

And they accused the "Saenuri Party", tycoons, the prosecution, the police, the U.S. and Japan of helping the Park group stay in power.

To oust the Park regime is the only way to scrap all policies enforced by the present regime and eliminate the masterminds of scandals, they contended.