{"id":14563,"date":"2024-12-26T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=14563"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:55:43","slug":"s-koreas-opposition-moves-to-impeach-acting-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/s-koreas-opposition-moves-to-impeach-acting-president\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea’s opposition moves to impeach acting president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Korea’s opposition said Thursday it filed an impeachment motion against acting president Han Duck-soo, after he refused to appoint Constitutional Court judges to complete the process of removing his predecessor from office.<\/p>\n

South Korea fell in a political crisis when President Yoon Suk Yeol, currently suspended, declared martial law on December 3.<\/p>\n

Yoon was stripped of his duties by parliament on December 14 over the action, but a constitutional court ruling upholding the decision by lawmakers is necessary to complete the impeachment process.<\/p>\n

But Han has refused to approve the appointments of three judge nominees to fill the nine-member bench of the Constitutional Court — essentially holding up the procedure to remove Yoon.<\/p>\n

The opposition Democratic Party is therefore now pushing to impeach Han too.<\/p>\n

“We have filed the motion… and will report it to the plenary session today,” MP Park Sung-joon told reporters at the National Assembly of the action against Han.<\/p>\n

“We will put it to a vote tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

Han’s refusal to formally appoint the three judges proves that he “does not have the will or qualification to uphold the Constitution,” the Democratic Party’s floor leader Park Chan-dae told reporters.<\/p>\n

If the court were to proceed with the impeachment process without the additional three judges, all six current judges would need to unanimously agree to remove Yoon from office. A single dissenting vote would reinstate Yoon.<\/p>\n

Han has said that he would certify the judges’ appointments only if his ruling People Power Party and the opposition reach a compromise on the nominees.<\/p>\n

“The consistent principle embedded in our Constitution and laws is to refrain from exercising significant exclusive presidential powers, including the appointment of constitutional institutions,” Han argued.<\/p>\n

“A consensus between the ruling and opposition parties in the National Assembly, representing the people, must first be reached,” added the 75-year-old career bureaucrat.<\/p>\n

If the opposition passes the impeachment motion against Han in Friday’s vote, it would mark the first time democratic South Korea has impeached an acting president.<\/p>\n

In Han’s place, Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok would step in as acting president.
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