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JanusIanitos's avatar

I didn't see this mentioned over the weekend and I only found out about it today. On Saturday South Korea's parliament voted to impeach Yoon over his attempted coup. Wikipedia has a decent summary of it, better than what I saw in news articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Yoon_Suk_Yeol

The next step will be the SK constitutional court taking it up, with them having 180 days to reach a verdict. There are currently only six justices on the nine justice court, and officially they need seven judges to begin hearings but have decided to ignore that constraint. Four of the six justices were appointed by Yoon. If Yoon is removed from office there will be a special election for his replacement. The PM will serve as acting president during the trial.

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Henrik's avatar

Ah so they finally got around to actually impeaching him after the first try failed

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