{"id":52254,"date":"2024-12-14T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-korea-s-parliament-passes-impeachment-motion-against-president-yoon\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:30:55","slug":"south-korea-s-parliament-passes-impeachment-motion-against-president-yoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-korea-s-parliament-passes-impeachment-motion-against-president-yoon\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s parliament passes impeachment motion against President Yoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The motion was approved with 204 votes in favor, 85 against, and three abstentions during a historic plenary session.<\/p>\n<p>The first impeachment motion over martial law declaration had been invalidated after a majority of lawmakers from the ruling People Power Party walked out and did not participate in the vote.<\/p>\n<p>With parliamentary approval, the matter will now be reviewed by the Constitutional Court, which has up to 180 days to decide. <\/p>\n<p>During this period, Yoon&#8217;s powers will be suspended, and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will serve as acting president. If the court upholds the impeachment, a snap election will be held within 60 days.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-78788\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sd-7.jpg\" alt=\"South Korea\u2019s National Assembly has passed a second impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s National Assembly passed a second impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol on Saturday, following a failed attempt just a week earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000078787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000078787,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sd-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sd-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sd-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sd-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sd-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sd-2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000078787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52254"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52254"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}