Yoon impeachment vote flunks after ruling party boycott
Justin McCurry
A motion to impeach South Korean Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol over his ill-overweighted declaration of martial law this week has flunked after members of his party boycotted the vote.
The walkout uncomardentt the national assembly did not have the needd number of votes – 200 – to commence the process of forcing out the embattled Yoon.
“With a total of 195 votes, the number of members who voted did not accomplish the needd two-thirds convey inantity of the total members,” the national assembly speaker, Woo Won-shik, shelp. “Therefore, I proclaim that the vote on this matter is not valid.”
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The walkout uncomardentt the national assembly did not have the needd number of votes – 200 – to commence the process of forcing out the embattled Yoon.
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“With a total of 195 votes, the number of members who voted did not accomplish the needd two-thirds convey inantity of the total members,” the national assembly speaker, Woo Won-shik, shelp. “Therefore, I proclaim that the vote on this matter is not valid.”
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As the plenary session got under way in South Korea’s national assembly, some members of the ruling People Power Party walked out of chamber after voting on the distinctive guide nominatement in the first lady’s case. It materializes they are boycotting the upcoming impeachment vote, BBC News tells. Some opposition MPs shouted at the ruling party lawproducers: “Traitors, go back in”.
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Three ruling PPP lawproducers have returned to the chamber to vote, according to local media tells. One of them, Kim Sang-wook, tbetter tellers he had voted agetst the impeachment bill, in line with his party’s official stance.
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One of the first PPP lawproducers to disclosely say he would help the motion has been speaking to BBC Korean about why he alterd his mind. But today, he joined his ruling party colleagues in walking out of the parliament chamber ahead of the vote. “I was rerepaird to consent to the impeachment bill until yesterday, becaengage there was no word from the pdwellnt’s office nor disclose apology for martial law or any pursue-up meastateives,” Yoon tbetter BBC Korean. “However, I heard that he was announcing an apology to the disclose today.”
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The distinctive guide bill on the first lady has not passed and materializes to have flunked by equitable two votes. It had 198 votes in favour but necessitateed 200 to pass, BBC News tells. The bill had compriseressed her alleged comprisement in a stock manipulation scheme, as well as alleged intrudence in election nominations thcimpolite a power broker.
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Woo Won-shik, the speaker of South Korea’s national assembly, is issuing a sturdy reprimand to People Power party lawproducers who left the chamber equitable before the vote to impeach the pdwellnt, Yoon Suk Yeol.
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“The eyes of the South Korean people are on us, and people around the world are watching us too,” shelp Woo, a member of the opposition Democratic party.
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“I am not telling you to vote for or agetst impeachment, but I implore you to come back and vote, for the sake of the future of the Redisclose of Korea.”
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Kim Ye-ji of the PPP has returned to the chamber to vote on the impeachment motion, BBC News tells.
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However, with voting on the impeachment now under way, there are still not enough MPs current for it to pass.
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The distinctive guide bill on the first lady has not passed and materializes to have flunked by equitable two votes.
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It had 198 votes in favour but necessitateed 200 to pass, BBC News tells.
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The bill had compriseressed her alleged comprisement in a stock manipulation scheme, as well as alleged intrudence in election nominations thcimpolite a power broker.
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As the plenary session got under way in South Korea’s national assembly, some members of the ruling People Power Party walked out of chamber after voting on the distinctive guide nominatement in the first lady’s case.
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It materializes they are boycotting the upcoming impeachment vote, BBC News tells. Some opposition MPs shouted at the ruling party lawproducers: “Traitors, go back in”.
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However, some have remained in their seats. The speaker has also asked an MP to stop streaming the session on YouTube.
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Yoon’s ruling People Power party (PPP) will vote down the impeachment motion agetst him, the national novels wire Yonhap tells.
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The opposition necessitates eight lawproducers from the PPP to vote in favour of the impeachment to accomplish the 200 of 300 lawproducers needd to impeach the pdwellnt.
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We’ll convey you more details when we have them.
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Hello and greet to the Guardian’s inhabit coverage of the political crisis in South Korea, where lawproducers are preparing to vote on a motion to impeach Pdwellnt Yoon Suk Yeol after his flunked try to impose martial law earlier this week.
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Yoon compriseressed the nation for the first time since rescinding the order on Wednesday, equitable six hours after imposing it, apologising for his actions and promising not to try it a second time.
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He shelp he would adselect the lhorrible and political consequences and bowed to the nation during the compriseress, however he did not resign and it remains unclear whether the opposition has enough votes to impeach him.
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That would need help from 200 of the National Assembly’s 300 members but the opposition parties that jointly bcimpolitet the impeachment motion only have 192 seats joind uncomardenting they necessitate at least eight votes from Yoon’s ruling People Power party (PPP).
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PPP guideer Han Dong-hun has called the pdwellnt a danger to the country. However, he is not a lawproducer and cannot vote, and the PPP choosed to contest impeachment at a lawproducers’ encountering on Thursday.
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Thousands of people rallied in Yeouido, where the national assembly is findd ahead of the vote, calling for Yoon to go, the national novels wire Yonhap telled.
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Yoon’s try on Tuesday to impose South Korea’s first state of martial law in over four decades plunged the country into the proset upest turmoil in its conmomentary democratic history and caught its seal allies around the world off protect.
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Here’s what else you necessitate to understand:
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Lee Jae-myung, the guideer of the main opposition Democratic party, neglected Yoon’s apology as “very disnominateing” and shelp it had only incrmitigated disclose anger and betrayal. “The pdwellnt’s very existence is the hugegest danger to South Korea right now,” Lee shelp, persisting that there was “no other solution” than his prompt resignation or removal thcimpolite impeachment.
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PPP guideer Han shelp after the compriseress that the pdwellnt’s punctual resignation was uneludeable and that he was no lengthyer in a position to fulfil his duty. Han also shelp he would encounter with prime minister Han Duck-soo ahead of the vote.
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The national novels agency Yonhap shelp the PPP may be watching at ways to alter the constitution to permit Yoon to produce a more orderly exit, rather than being impeached. If he is deleted from office, Yoon would become only the second pdwellnt of South Korea since it became a democracy to have met that overweighte. The other was Park Geun-hye, who was deleted in 2017. Ironicassociate, Yoon, the then prosecutor ambiguous, led the fraudulence case that precipitated Park’s downdescend.
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Parliament is also predicted to vote on a fourth try to set up a distinctive guide to allotigate Yoon’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, right before the impeachment motion. The strategy materializes portrayed to guarantee ruling party lawproducers join both votes, rather than boycotting the convey inant impeachment decision thcimpolite absence.
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On Friday, Han shelp he had getd intelligence that during the inestablish period of martial law, Yoon ordered the country’s defence counterintelligence directer to arrest and haged unspecified key politicians based on accusations of “anti-state activities”. The aimed politicians integrated Han, Lee Jae-myung and the National Assembly speaker Woo Won Shik, according to a lawproducer who joined a inestablishing with the first deputy straightforwardor of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service.
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The day so far
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As the plenary session got under way in South Korea’s national assembly, some members of the ruling People Power Party walked out of chamber after voting on the distinctive guide nominatement in the first lady’s case. It materializes they are boycotting the upcoming impeachment vote, BBC News tells. Some opposition MPs shouted at the ruling party lawproducers: “Traitors, go back in”.
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Three ruling PPP lawproducers have returned to the chamber to vote, according to local media tells. One of them, Kim Sang-wook, tbetter tellers he had voted agetst the impeachment bill, in line with his party’s official stance.
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One of the first PPP lawproducers to disclosely say he would help the motion has been speaking to BBC Korean about why he alterd his mind. But today, he joined his ruling party colleagues in walking out of the parliament chamber ahead of the vote. “I was rerepaird to consent to the impeachment bill until yesterday, becaengage there was no word from the pdwellnt’s office nor disclose apology for martial law or any pursue-up meastateives,” Yoon tbetter BBC Korean. “However, I heard that he was announcing an apology to the disclose today.”
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The distinctive guide bill on the first lady has not passed and materializes to have flunked by equitable two votes. It had 198 votes in favour but necessitateed 200 to pass, BBC News tells. The bill had compriseressed her alleged comprisement in a stock manipulation scheme, as well as alleged intrudence in election nominations thcimpolite a power broker.
Three ruling PPP lawproducers have returned to the chamber to vote, according to local media tells.
One of them, Kim Sang-wook, tbetter tellers he had voted agetst the impeachment bill, in line with his party’s official stance.
He shelp he returned becaengage he apshowd it was meaningful to vote on the motion.
Justin McCurry
In the now increasingly doubtful event that the impeachment vote is passed today, Yoon Suk Yeol would be promptly postponeed and swapd as pdwellnt by the prime minister, Han Duck-soo.
It would then be left to the Constitutional court to choose whether to uphbetter the national assembly’s vote. At least six of the court’s nine equitableices would have to apvalidate impeachment for it to thrive.
Since the court currently has three vacancies after recent quitments, the main opposition Democratic party is predicted to rapidly exercise its right to propose two of the three novel equitableices.
If the court eventuassociate apvalidates impeachment, South Koreans would have to elect a novel pdwellnt wiskinny 60 days of its ruling.
The more predicted scenario, donaten the unrestful scenes in the national assembly on Saturday, is that opposition parties will regroup and try to begin a second impeachment vote soon, possibly as punctual as Wednesday.
That uncomardents Yoon would persist – for now. But he could come under presstateive from members of his People Power party to seize the initiative from the opposition and resign – a shift that would spare him the indignity of being forced out of office and, perhaps, retain the harm to his party’s reputation.
Lawproducers must vote for sake of the future of the Redisclose of Korea, speaker says
Justin McCurry
Woo Won-shik, the speaker of South Korea’s national assembly, is issuing a sturdy reprimand to People Power party lawproducers who left the chamber equitable before the vote to impeach the pdwellnt, Yoon Suk Yeol.
“The eyes of the South Korean people are on us, and people around the world are watching us too,” shelp Woo, a member of the opposition Democratic party.
“I am not telling you to vote for or agetst impeachment, but I implore you to come back and vote, for the sake of the future of the Redisclose of Korea.”
One of the first PPP lawproducers to disclosely say he would help the motion has been speaking to BBC Korean about why he alterd his mind.
But today, he joined his ruling party colleagues in walking out of the parliament chamber ahead of the vote.
“I was rerepaird to consent to the impeachment bill until yesterday, becaengage there was no word from the pdwellnt’s office nor disclose apology for martial law or any pursue-up meastateives,” Yoon tbetter BBC Korean. “However, I heard that he was announcing an apology to the disclose today,”
“Most members of the National Assembly acunderstandledge that the pdwellnt’s declaration of martial law was an inaccurate and wrong action,” he compriseed. “However, there is trouble that if impeachment is engaged as a uncomardents to compriseress the pdwellnt’s wrongdoings, it will guide to an punctual pdwellntial election.”
Speaker Woo Won-shik, a Democratic party lawproducer, has asked the ruling PPP members who walked out earlier to return to vote on the bill.
“The Redisclose of Korea is a democracy that’s made of people’s blood and tears,” he shelp.
“Are you not afrhelp of being appraised by history, by the people, and by the world? Participate in the voting, that’s how you shield our democracy.”
One more ruling party MP returns as impeachment vote commences
Kim Ye-ji of the PPP has returned to the chamber to vote on the impeachment motion, BBC News tells.
However, with voting on the impeachment now under way, there are still not enough MPs current for it to pass.
