South Korea president set to survive impeachment after governing lawmakers boycott vote | CNN

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  1. Cowards. And extremely dumb, surely you’d want to distance yourself as a party from this embarrassment?

  3. > South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is set to survive impeachment after a vote against him was boycotted by governing party lawmakers on Saturday.

    > In another day of high drama, a number of lawmakers left parliament ahead of the vote to impeach President Yoon over his decision to impose a short-lived period of martial law earlier this week. Just two remained inside while the one governing lawmaker who returned voted against the motion.

    > Outside the main hall, opposition lawmakers could be heard shouting, “Go inside [the chamber]!” and calling them “cowards.”

    > Voting is underway but will likely be rendered moot as numbers counted won’t be enough for the motion to pass.

    > If, as expected, it fails, the next available date lawmakers can vote on Yoon’s impeachment is Wednesday, December 11.

    > The lawmaker who returned, Kim Sang-wook, described his predicament, telling journalists at the National Assembly that he believes the conservatism that “protects free Republic of Korea” should be preserved.

    > While he does not believe President Yoon qualifies as a president, he voted against the impeachment motion in accordance with his party’s opinion. He said he had listened to the president, who apologized and said he would “entrust” the party to respond.

    > “I want to believe in his words,” Kim said

  4. Pretty wild not reprimanding a president willing to declare martial law so brazenly and backtracking it within hours. 

  5. The most shameful and spineless cowards in the world. Opposition should just table endless impeachment votes to thoroughly expose him, what’s stopping him just trying again? Not worth the risk

  6. I don’t understand – if his party didn’t vote why didn’t the motion pass?

  7. It’s good to see that the United States isn’t the only country with a government staffed entirely by the Ringling brothers.

  9. This isn’t just evil, it’s super short sighted. They are calculating that not admitting how bad this was will help convince voters that it wasn’t that bad, and save their parties electoral chances.

    But this won’t change anyone’s mind. He tried to set himself up as dictator, explicitly stating that he was doing this so he could attack his political opponents. If his party wanted to survive at all they should have made it clear that these were the rogue actions of a lunatic.

    Now it looks like if they had had a majority in the legislature then he would have gotten away with this. Their whole party looks culpable.

  11. Fucking hell. Just like the Republican Party. Right Wing should burn.

  13. Spineless governing party lawmakers bending so hard allowing their shitty leader to get away with whatever he wants. Embarrassing.

  14. There is a big issue in modern democracies where the people have no longer any power.

    We can decide the name of the head of the nation in a list of several pre-selected names.
    And decide which party will be in the lead in the parlement.

    And that’s all.

    Public is outside, and yet unable to force the destitution.

    Why far right parties raises, because population is fed up of those politicians thinking more about their career than the nation…

    How on earth those politicians can refuse to vote for impeachment

  16. >While he does not believe President Yoon qualifies as a president, he voted against the impeachment motion in accordance with his party’s opinion. He said he had listened to the president, who apologized and said he would “entrust” the party to respond.

    God these fucking party over logic and common sense is fucking stupid.

  17. Traitors to their people! You put your party ahead of the wellbeing of your Democracy! Disgusting!

  18. He might survive the impeachment, but he will not survive the biggest union strike in Korean history that is bringing the country to a standstill at the moment.

  19. At this point worldwide the systems meant to govern the elite as citizens subject to the rule of law are showing to be either a lie from the get go or they were just that badly designed from the get go. Requiring a majority of the powerful to do the “right” thing to enact any real change… The wealthy simply do NOT let the wealthy face true consequences.

  20. The president gave order to arrest not only the opposition leader but also the leader of his own party right after declaring martial law. Even he survived the impeachment, chaos would surely happen within the ruling party.

  23. Leave it to CNN to word it in such a way to deflate the rage, deflate the protests and deflate the fact South Korea is a democracy. 

  24. Party over country. Wild. Shame on South Korea. Don’t be like the USA.

  25. Upsetting result but this is not the end. There will be more attempts and koreans won’t stop showing up.

  26. Any coup that is not punished is a successful coup whether or not they achieved the ultimate power or not

  27. This is an example of what is going to happen in America, too late really but we will see how maga feel when their red states, specifically Texas completely collapse.

    When they start feeling not just high prices but food scarcity as their suppliers from around the world have already prepared new markets for their exports.

    We will see , I believe repukes were stupid to encourage violence, they were stupid to encourage hate as now it will be directed towards them not only democrats.

  28. Democracy is slowly dying all around the world and most often loses to the platform of “women bad, LGBTQ bad, abortions bad”. People would rather choose dictatorship than human rights. Blows my mind.

  30. Insane how right-wingers absolutely refuse to hold their own accountable across the globe.

    Conservatives belong nowhere near government – incapable of leading anything but scams.

  31. Is this a fucking joke? Guy pushed democracy to the brink, special forces trying to keep MPs out of voting in parliament! And they let him get away???

    Insanity. No wonder democracy is dying everywhere.

  32. Staging a coup doesn’t seem to matter as much as it used to. In any country. Just… what the hell, man?

  33. cant believe they did not even have the decency to fucking stay and vote. Only three voted from the conservative party and everybody else just left.

    disgusting behaviour. They should rename their party to something else because they are too busy covering their asses than give a shit about the people of Korea or the country’s future. Fuck them all.

  36. Wow, South Korea is really showing the world how democracy works. Just like the US.

  37. Ahh, so they’re just going to allow that to be a practice run then? Smart…

  39. Opposition of democrats commit a coup

    Major party leaders condemn the president

    Somehow the legislature fails to impeach the president

    I’ve seen this before

  40. The deep-state Neocon puppet of US got away with this one!

  41. So he’s gonna get away with it just like Trump? Fuck.

    How come Brazil is the only country punishing dictators the correct way?

  43. Right wing failed coup where no consequences come from it and their party protects them and keeps them as a politician?

    Man South Korea is becoming so much like their big brother USA

  44. The US will let you do it to keep power and then ignore it happened at all…we’ve seen this episode before

  45. Why are all of the world’s leaders trying to speedrun various forms of fascism?

  46. I talked to my father who is right wing and in korea and this is his take. It’s from a short phone call so I don’t have all the details but here is what I got.

    He says the Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-Myung is a Trump level bad guy. Corrupt as hell and he is being prosecuted for various corrupt crimes, all of which he denies and is claiming this is all political persecution.

    According to my dad Lee Jae-Myung’s flagship policy he is campaigning on is giving all koreans $200 saying it’ll stimulate the economy. And he says Lee Jae-Myung’s foreign policy is 0 aid to Ukraine because it’s far away and 0 opposition to China. No pacific NATO, no nothing, just leave China alone.

    According to my dad the unprecedented 22 impeachments against Yoon’s prosecutors is the opposition party going full political lawfare on the ruling party and shutting down any and all attempts to prosecute Lee Jae-Myung by eliminating anyone who tries to prosecute him.

    According to my dad the 2025 budget thing is about oil. Apparently Korea found oil and Yoon’s government is trying to start surveying and drilling the oil but the opposition party is blocking any and all attempts to fund the attempt. My father claims it’s because if Yoon’s administration finds oil then it’ll be very good for them so the opposition party is blocking it until their party gets a president and then claim credit.

    And he says the martial law thing was an attempt to break the paralysis of the system caused by the opposition party. Not that he condones it. He thought it was fake news when I first told him about the martial law thing.

    Can someone who knows way, way more than me about Korea politics chip in here?

  47. They’re betting that they can get yoon to resign, even the party leader stated that he wants yoon gone, they just don’t want an impeachment which would trigger an election.

    They’re basically using the same strategy that the tories used during the last couple years. They’re basically using KNOW calling an election now would be catastrophic, and are trying to delay it. They’re not necessarily going to let him retain office though

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