South Korea’s Members of Parliament have voted to impeach President Yoon.
According to BBC, Since the MPs voted to impeach the Head of State, the Prime Minister was promoted to serve as the acting resident.
This makes the constitutional court to have 6 months to decide whether to sustain his impeachment.
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Meanwhile, Yoon is expected to remain in office, but his Presidential powers suspended.
204MPs approved the motion to impeach Yoon.
This was because he had declared martial law in the country.
I am temporarily stopping my journey. I will do my best for the country till the end.
Yoon said.
The impeachment made Yoon the second conservative President to be impeached.
The President won the presidential elections in 2022.
President Yoon had filed for an appeal which stated that he had only acted out of burning patriotism to save the country from destruction and defiance to fight to the end.
During his impeachment, hundreds of thousands of people gathered near the Parliament in jubilation as they waved banners as the stated that they had preserved the constitutional order.
Since he has been impeached and suspended, his fate is yet to be declared by the court.
