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The South Korean Parliament has passed the impeachment motion against President Eun Suk Yeol. In the voting held on Saturday, 204 MPs voted in favor of the impeachment motion against President Yool.
According to international media, 84 The MP voted against the impeachment. 8 votes were nullified and 3 MPs remained neutral. With the impeachment motion passed, President Yun was automatically suspended from office. With the impeachment motion passed by the parliament, Yun will now face the case in the Constitutional Court.
The 9-member court will take the final decision on the impeachment motion against him. If 6 of them are in favor of impeachment, the presidency will be vacant. There is an election to elect a new president within 60 days. Until then, Prime Minister Han Dak Su will serve as acting president.
President Yeol imposed military rule on December 3 saying that the nationalism was under threat from North Korea and some opposition within the country . But after the majority of the parliament voted against the proposal, he withdrew the decision to implement military rule.
He was spared impeachment after his party, the People's Power Party (PPP), boycotted the vote in Parliament last Saturday. PPP has 180 members in the 300-member parliament.
