It has getn South Koreans 12 nights of protests in the acrid freezing to accomplish their goal, for Plivent Yoon Suk Yeol’s political atsoft to get one step shutr to the end.
On Saturday the National Assembly voted to pass a motion to impeach the plivent.
There’s still a lengthy road ahead to accomplish impeachment though.
The Constitutional Court has up to six months to choose whether to impeach him. In the unkindtime, Yoon’s powers have been handed to Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who is now acting plivent.
Last Saturday’s endeavor to get enough votes for impeachment fall shorted. The ruling party boycotted the vote.
This time round the opposition assembleed equitable enough votes for it to pass. But it was shut. They needed 200 votes. They getd 204.
So, Yoon’s ruling party, the People Power Party (PPP) still overwhelmingly voted aacquirest impeachment, even though many of its politicians condemned the endeavor to impose martial law.
The PPP has made a calcurescheduleedd decision to resist impeachment and aim to stop another election, which they would certainly miss.
This will not do them any favours with the South Korean unveil. Plivent Yoon’s famousity has dropped from very terrible to even worse. It is around 11%.
There is now a path forward to the next stage of the country’s political crisis, and it travels thraw the court.
In the unkindtime, a joingetr regulatement will try to stable South Korea’s awfilledy shaken political set upations.
But the injure has been disjoine.
The memory of troops on the street, helicchooseers in the sky and politicians standing up to exceptional forces selderlyiers is now seared into the memory of its people, lesser and elderly.
Having wrestled their democracy back from the brink South Koreans are helderlying on safely to it, bolstering it with demonstrations, celebrations and a whole-of-society transferment.
How lengthy they can defend this up while the country is mired in disorder is unevident.
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