(14 Dec 2024)
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Seoul – 14 December 2024
1. Wide of South Korean National Assembly session
2. Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung entering voting booth
3. Lawmakers entering voting booths
4. Tracking of Lee coming out of voting booth
5. Lee casting ballot
6. Wide of session
7. Various of votes being counted
8. National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik announcing impeachment motion has passed, UPSOUND (Korean) "I hereby declare the impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol has been passed with a total of 309 votes, 204 in favor, 85 against, three abstentions, and eight invalid votes."
9. Wide of session
STORYLINE:
South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration this month.
The National Assembly passed the motion in a 204-85 vote on Saturday.
Yoon’s presidential powers and duties will be suspended after the copies of a document on the impeachment are delivered to him and to the Constitutional Court.
The court has up to 180 days to determine whether to dismiss Yoon as president or restore his powers.
If he’s thrown out of office, a national election to choose his successor must be held within 60 days.
Yoon’s martial law imposition, the first of its kind in more than four decades in South Korea, lasted only six hours, but has caused massive political tumult, halted diplomatic activities and rattled financial markets.
The president was forced to lift his decree after parliament unanimously voted to overturn it.
After declaring martial law, Yoon sent hundreds of troops and police officers to the parliament to try to impede its vote on the decree before they withdrew after the parliament rejected it. No major violence occurred.
Opposition parties and many experts accuse Yoon of rebellion, citing a law clause that categorizes as rebellion the staging of a riot against established state authorities to undermine the constitution.
They also say that by law a president in South Korea is allowed to declare martial law only during wartime or similar emergencies and has no rights to suspend parliament’s operations even under martial law.
AP video shot by Yong Jun Chang
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