Last weekend, an attempt by opposition lawmakers to impeach the president failed, after members of his own ruling party boycotted the vote – but opposition members are set to hold another impeachment vote this weekend and have vowed to hold one every Saturday until Yoon is removed from office.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Yoon’s party had been hoping to convince the President to leave office early, rather than force him out.
Minutes before Yoon spoke, his party leader, Han Dong Hoon, appeared on television saying it had become clear he was not going to step aside. Han then urged members of the party to vote to remove him from office this Saturday.
If South Korea’s parliament passes an impeachment bill, a trial would be held by a constitutional court. Two-thirds of that court would have to sustain the majority for Yoon to be removed permanently from office.
Yoon has been a lame duck president since the opposition won a landslide in the country’s general election in April this year – his government has not been able to pass the laws it wanted and has been reduced instead to vetoing bills the opposition has proposed.
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