South Korea’s recent political turmoil has taken an entertaining twist: having finally agreed about impeaching previous president Yoon Suk Yeol over that martial law thing from a few weeks ago, they’re now impeaching his replacement:
South Korea has voted to impeach its acting president Han Duck-soo, two weeks after parliament voted to impeach its President Yoon Suk Yeol.
A total of 192 lawmakers voted for his impeachment, more than the 151 votes needed for it to succeed.
Prime minister Han took over the role after President Yoon was impeached by parliament following his failed attempt to impose martial law on 3 December.
Han was supposed to lead the country out of its political turmoil, but opposition MPs argued that he was refusing demands to complete Yoon’s impeachment process. […]
The opposition first filed an impeachment motion against Han on Thursday after he blocked the appointment of three judges that parliament had chosen to oversee Yoon’s case.
Korea’s Constitutional Court is typically made up of a nine-member bench. At least six judges must uphold Yoon’s impeachment in order for the decision to be upheld.
There are currently only six judges on the bench, meaning a single rejection would save Yoon from being removed.
Obviously this kind of complicates the whole situation cos the court still has to decide if Yoon’s impeachment counts or not, and now they’ll have to make a similar judgement about this guy… and they’ve got 180 days to rule on each one, so just imagine how many more acting presidents the opposition could impeach in that time. The guy who’s taken over from Han must be wondering how long before the same thing happens to him…
