The Parliament of South Korea approved this Saturday the impeachment motion presented against the president of the country, Yoon Suk Yeolfor declaring martial law, a measure that was revoked just hours later and that has caused an internal crisis in the country.
The vote resulted in 204 votes in favor of removing Yoon compared to 85 against, three abstentions and eight null votes, according to information from the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
This is the second motion put to a vote in the country’s National Assembly in a week. Last Saturday, the initiative did not obtain the necessary majority to move forward due to the rejection of Yoon’s party, the government People’s Power Party, which has 108 deputies.
For the measure to be approved, the support of 200 of the 300 deputies was necessary that make up Parliament – in the presence of more than half of the parliamentarians -.
