Woo Won-sik: "Han Deok-su Impeachment Proposal Applies Prime Minister Standards... Approved by Majority Vote" (Update)

On the 27th, Speaker of the National Assembly Woo Won-sik decided to apply the impeachment resolution quorum standard for the Prime Minister to the impeachment motion against Acting President and Prime Minister Han Deok-su. As a result, the impeachment motion against Acting President Han can be passed with opposition party seats alone.

Speaker Woo Won-sik announced on the 27th that the required number of votes to pass the impeachment motion against Acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo is 151, based on the number of Cabinet members. In response, members of the People Power Party rushed to the podium to protest. / Photo by Gong Byung-sun

Before the vote on the impeachment motion against Acting President Han at the plenary session that day, Speaker Woo stated, "This agenda will be voted on by secret ballot according to Article 30, Paragraph 2 of the National Assembly Act," and added, "This agenda is an impeachment motion against Prime Minister Han Deok-su, and according to Article 65, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution, it will be resolved by the majority of the total members of the National Assembly."

Regarding the impeachment motion against Acting President Han, Speaker Woo applied the impeachment standards for Cabinet members below the Prime Minister, which require at least one-third of the total members to propose and a majority of the total members to approve, rather than the presidential impeachment standards that require a proposal by a majority of the total members and approval by two-thirds of the total members of the National Assembly.

The People Power Party protested by rushing to the speaker's podium after Speaker Woo applied the standard advocated by the opposition party. They chanted slogans such as "Abuse of power," "Null and void," and "Resign, Speaker."

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