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作成日: 2024/12/16 07:00

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South Korea&#039;s National Assembly has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol, with more than two-thirds of the required support. This was the second ballot on the bill, after it failed last week due to a lack of attendance by lawmakers.
                
The plenary session started a little past 4 p.m. on Saturday. National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik announced that 204 lawmakers supported the bill. Eighty-five opposed it.
                
Opposition parties filed the motion on Wednesday last week, but all ruling party members except three walked out of the assembly hall. The boycott caused the bill to fail.
                
This ignited a huge protest by citizens. Mass rallies calling for Yoon&#039;s impeachment continued in the capital.
The second impeachment motion says the declaration of martial law by President Yoon violates the Constitution and amounts to the crime of internal insurrection.
                
The motion specifies that Yoon not only sent military personnel illegally into the Central Election Commission, but also broke the law in attempting to arrest lawmakers, politicians and journalists.
                
The bill also says the president declared martial law in violation of the requirements and procedures in order to disrupt the Constitution. It says Yoon launched a series of insurgencies that threatened the National Assembly and citizens, and led an act of internal insurrection that harmed the peace of the entire South Korean people.
                
It also said there had been no irregular signs of a state emergency until the martial law declaration, nor any situation warranting a response with military force.
                
However, the motion deleted certain references from the first bill, which said Yoon had been following what it called &quot;odd foreign policies&quot; leaning toward Japan.
                
South Korean media say the new bill specifically references more unconstitutional and illegal actions than the first bill, and reinforces the legal basis for impeachment.
                
Yoon has been suspended and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has taken over his duties.
                
Yoon vowed in his statement that he will &#039;never give up&#039; after the bill to impeach him passed on Saturday afternoon.
                
Yoon said although he is pausing for now, his journey toward the future with the people over the past two and a half years should not stop.
                
He vowed to do his best for the country until the very end, saying he will carry all criticism and encouragement with him.
                
He also said he believes in people&#039;s fundamental power, while asking them to cooperate with him to realize a free, democratic and prosperous society.
                
Ruling party chief Han Dong-hoon told reporters he would continue his duties as party leader while taking the result seriously. Han said that together with the people, he would safeguard democracy in the country.
                
The leader of the largest opposition Democratic Party says the passage of the impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol is another victory for the country&#039;s democracy.
                
Lee Jae-myung issued a comment after the motion was adopted at the National Assembly on Saturday afternoon.
                
He said in his statement that the actions of those who demanded President Yoon&#039;s impeachment without taking one day off, and without surrendering to the cold weather, has enabled today&#039;s victory.
                
Lee added: &quot;If we work together with the people, we can overcome any difficulties. The path we will take is exactly the future of South Korea.&quot;
                
An official of the Democratic Party told reporters that the passage of the bill is only the first step toward bringing the situation under control.
                
The official said: &quot;We will not let our guard down until the whole picture of the incident is revealed through thorough investigations, and punishments are handed down to those who were complicit.&quot;
                
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo told reporters he will do his best to manage national politics in a stable manner.
                
Han issued instructions to officials in the government, along with a warning that North Korea may attempt provocations if it considers security in the South to be weak. The prime minister told the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to upgrade the alert level against North Korea.
                
He also asked the foreign minister to keep close communications with neighboring countries, including China and Japan, on the basis of the alliance with the US.
                
Once South Korea&#039;s National Assembly passes a bill to impeach a president, the Constitutional Court examines whether the decision is appropriate and issues a final ruling within 180 days.
                
Local media say in 2004, after an impeachment bill was adopted against then-President Roh Moo-hyun, it took 63 days for the Constitutional Court to judge the move was not appropriate and dismiss it.
                
The media also say that in 2016, the court spent 91 days to decide the impeachment of then-President Park Geun-hye was appropriate, after the bill was adopted by parliament.
                
A president will be removed from office if more than six of the nine justices on the Constitutional Court decide the impeachment vote is appropriate. A presidential election will be held within 60 days.
                
The court currently has only six justices on its bench, after three retired. But local media say if all six conclude the assembly&#039;s vote is appropriate, the impeachment will officially be sealed.

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