The disqualification of Han Duck-soo, who inherited the positions from Yoon Suk-yeol, who was also dismissed, marks the first time in democracy that South Korea has dismissed an interim head of government and state.
South Korea’s parliament today approved an opposition motion to dismiss Han Duck-soo, Prime Minister and acting President, for just two weeks, exacerbating the institutional crisis the country has been plunged into since martial law began. of the month.
The disqualification of Han, who had also inherited the functions of the fired Yoon Suk-yeolmarks the first time in democracy that South Korea has dismissed an interim head of government and state and implies that from today the position will provisionally be held by the Minister of Finance and the Deputy Prime Minister, Choi Sang Mug.
The initiative was approved by 192 votes in favor, the total number of seats the opposition has, and was boycotted by the ruling and conservative People’s Power Party (PPP).
Shortly after the dismissal was approved, the PPP filed a request for arbitration on jurisdictional incompatibilities and a petition to the Constitutional Court to annul Han’s dismissal.
For his part, Choi, as the new interim president, issued a letter assuring that “the government will do everything possible to ensure institutional stability.
Minutes before the vote, the speaker of the South Korean parliament said, Woo Won-sikannounced that Han’s resignation would take effect if the motion was approved by a simple majority in the House, sparking an angry protest from PPP deputies.
The ruling party claimed that since it was an interim president, the vote should use the same scale – two-thirds of parliament, a share not held by the opposition – that is used to impeach a president in South – Korea to approve.
However, the liberal Democratic Party (PD)the main opposition party that tabled the motion, to which Woo belongs, has defended that the same standard used to dismiss the rest of the cabinet’s members, the simple majority, should be used in Han’s case.
Appointments to the Constitutional Court
The PD filed a motion to disqualify Han on Thursday after he said he would not approve the appointment of new judges to the Constitutional Court, as requested by the opposition, until the two main parties agreed on the appointments. three magistrates to fill the vacant seats of South Korea’s highest court.
The Constitutional Court tries Yoon Suk-yeol be for declaration of martial law on December 3 and has until June 11 to decide whether or not to ratify it.
If these three vacancies at the Court are not filled, the six magistrates currently comprising the Court must give their approval unanimously its discontinuation before it becomes effective.
He P.S He is trying to ensure that Yoon’s resignation is completed as quickly as possible so that early presidential elections can be held in which he would be a clear favorite.
He PPP instead appears to be trying to delay the trial as much as possible, given the possibility that the Supreme Court could soon uphold a sentence for violating the electoral law weighing on Liberal leader Lee Jae-myung, who would be beheaded in light of the elections.
Source: EITB
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