Lawmakers narrowly failed to pass a bill to censure Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law on Tuesday.
  • Suffa@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    53·
    21 days ago

    What a shame, I thought they were better than us with how quickly they stepped up to squash the coup.

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
          3·
          21 days ago

          Well, “Impeaching” a president literally just means holding a trial. The House of Representatives (controlled by Democrats at the time) issued articles of Impeachment, initiating the process of charging him with a crime, as is required by law.

          The law also mandates the Senate to be the Judge and Jury though, and the Senate was controlled by Republicans, who voted to acquit him of all his crimes. Twice.

          So not quite the same, since the vote to end martial law in Korea was unanimous, but the vote to initiate impeachment failed.

          • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            21 days ago

            Voting to end martial laws was not unanimous.

            It was 190 out of 300, 110 of which weren’t able to get in the building.

            Impeachment in South Korea requires 2/3 supermajority, then it goes to the Supreme Court.

            The president’s party has 108 members in the national assembly. They’d need 8 defectors from the party to impeach.

            Then it goes to the Supreme Court, which is probably the easier step compared to 2/3 of legislature.

              • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us
                1·
                11 days ago

                When you think about it, in some ways it’s not that unreasonable of an assumption. 300 - 110 (who couldn’t get into the building) = 190 (who voted to end martial law)

                If you could the votes of those who were actually present, then you could say it was unanimous.

                That said, a PPP delegate who was going to vote against probably didn’t have a whole lot of incentive to try and get into the building (suggesting the possibility that it might be reasonable to count at least some of the “unable to get in” folks as no votes).

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    14·
    21 days ago

    Yoon did not offer to resign, but said he would leave decisions on how to stabilise the country to his party.

    “I shit the bed, but I am honorable and trustworthy enough to let others clean it up for me.”