South Korean President Yoon Seok Yeol Impeached: What Happens There Now?
Robert Kelly : Dec 16, 2024
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[19FortyFive.com] Yoon Seok Yeol, the conservative president of South Korea, was impeached today by the South Korean legislature, the National Assembly, because of his botched martial law declaration of December 3. The Assembly has 300 members; 200 votes are required to impeach. A previous effort to impeach him failed last week. The liberal opposition needed a few conservative parliamentarians to vote to remove Yoon. Last week, they cleaved to him; this week, they defected. Yoon is now suspended from office. His executive powers have been stripped. The South Korean prime minister is now the acting president... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via ABC News-Australia)