Most lawmakers from the country’s ruling party boycotted a parliamentary vote to deny a two-thirds majority needed to suspend Yoon Suk Yeol’s presidential powers.
, as most ruling party lawmakers boycotted a parliamentary vote on Saturday to deny a two-thirds majority needed to suspend his presidential powers., with a survey suggesting most South Koreans support the president’s impeachment.Bloomberg
The party’s floor leader, Park Chan-dae, said the opposition would soon prepare for a new impeachment motion. Opposition parties could submit a new motion after a new parliamentary session opens on Wednesday.“We’ll surely impeach Yoon Suk Yeol, who is the greatest risk to Republic of Korea,” party leader Lee Jae-myung said. “We’ll surely bring back this country to normal before Christmas Day or year’s end.
Impeaching Yoon required support from 200 of the national assembly’s 300 members. The Democratic Party and five other smaller opposition parties, which filed the motion, have a combined 192 seats. But only three PPP lawmakers participated in the vote. The motion was scrapped without ballot counting because the number of votes didn’t reach 200.
Since taking office in 2022, Yoon has struggled to push his agenda through an opposition-controlled parliament and grappled with low approval ratings amid scandals involving he and his wife. In his martial law announcement on Tuesday night, Yoon called parliament a “den of criminals” bogging down state affairs and vowed to eliminate “shameless North Korea followers and anti-state forces”.
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