Yoon Impeachment Motion Ultimately Fails Due to Ruling Party's Full-Scale Block... Opposition Party Says "Will Reintroduce Until It Passes" (Update)

195 Votes Out of 300, Quorum Not Met
Opposition Expected to Reintroduce Bill on the 11th

The impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol was dismissed in the plenary session of the National Assembly on the 7th due to a lack of quorum. Only 195 out of 300 total members participated in the vote on President Yoon's impeachment.

The National Assembly convened a plenary session that day to vote on the impeachment motion against President Yoon, but failed to secure the required number of seats to pass it. For presidential impeachment, two-thirds of the total members (300 members), which is 200 votes, are needed, but members of the People Power Party abstained from voting, resulting in a lack of quorum.

Yonhap News

In the vote that day, all 192 members from six opposition parties including the Democratic Party and 3 members from the People Power Party?Ahn Cheol-soo, Kim Sang-wook, and Kim Ye-ji?totaling 195 members, participated. The People Power Party had previously decided at a party meeting before the plenary session to oppose the impeachment motion as the party line. Nevertheless, although three members joined the impeachment vote, it was insufficient to surpass the approval threshold.

Although the impeachment motion was dismissed due to failure to establish, the opposition parties are expected to push for it again after the regular session of the National Assembly.

Park Chan-dae, floor leader of the Democratic Party, said at a press briefing before the plenary session that "If the impeachment motion is rejected, since the regular session ends on the 10th, we will immediately convene an extraordinary session on the 11th to re-pursue the impeachment."

The National Assembly Act holds the principle of "non bis in idem," which means that "a rejected bill cannot be reintroduced or resubmitted within the same session."

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