The South Korean Parliament has approved a motion to dismiss the prime minister and president in office for two weeks, Han Duck-Soo. It has been the first time in the history of South Korea’s democracy that a head of government and state has been dismissed.
This dismissal has meant that The position is now held by the Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, Choi Sang-mok, provisionally.
Clash between both parties over the way in which he was dismissed
The initiative has gone ahead after 192 votes in favorwhich are all the seats that the opposition has in its power and have been boycotted by the ruling and conservative People’s Power Party (PPP). Han Duck-soo He had inherited the functions of the also dismissed Yoon Suk-yeol.
A few minutes before the vote, the president of the South Korean Parliament, Woo Won-sik, announced that lHan Duck-soo’s dismissal would take place if the motion was approved by a simple majority.
For its part, the PPP claimed thatas Duck-soo was an acting president, The vote had to use the same scale as for removing a president: two-thirds of Parliament, a power that the opposition did not have in its hands.
However, the liberal Democratic Party (PD)the main opposition party and to which the president of parliament belongs, He maintained that in this case the same method should be used as to dismiss any member of the Cabinet: the simple majority.
The approval of the new Constitutional magistrates, in the air
Before the vote, the PD had already presented a motion to disqualify the President, due to his refusal to approve new appointments of new judges for the Constitutional Court, something that the opposition demanded of him. Han Duck-soo had ordered that the major parties agreed to elect the three magistrates who must occupy the vacant seats.
The former president is on trial
On the other hand, the Constitutional Court is trying Yoon Suk-yeon for the declaration of martial law on December 3. You have until June 11 to ratify it or not. If the three vacancies on the Constitutional Court are not filled, there will be the six magistrates who currently make up the Court. those who unanimously approve the cessation for it to be effective.
The PD tries to have Yoon’s dismissal completed as soon as possible for presidential elections to be called soon.
For its part, the PPP seeks to delay this process as much as possible due to the possibility that the Supreme Court ratifies the ruling that affirms that the leader of the liberals, Lee Jae-myung has violated the electoral law. If so, the party would go to the elections without representatives.
Han’s dismissal now leads the Asian country to even greater uncertainty, since the opposition has said that it will continue to pressure the Government and the ruling party to renew the Constitutional Court and approve special investigations against Yoon.
