Reintegrated as South Korean president to interim
The Constitutional Court of South Korea rejected the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-Soco today, reinstating it as an interim president.
“Han’s impeachment was rejected with a 5-1 vote by the eight judges of the court, two of whom voted to completely reject the motion”, reports the Yonhap news agency. “I thank the Constitutional Court for his wise decision,” said Han, arriving a few minutes after the sentence in his office thanks to the immediate reinstatement as a premier and president of Interim. His authority had been suspended on December 27 by the Parliament controlled by the Democratic Party, the main opposition force. “I will begin by taking care of me before the urgent issues,” added Han, satisfied with the conclusion of the story, while the nation awaits the sentence in the impeachment process against President Yoon Suk-Yeol, regarding the disastrous declaration of martial law of 3 December. The Constitutional Court announced in a note that the college considered insufficient evidence to support Han’s accusation, with seven judges who voted to reject it and one to confirm it. The impeachment, in the end, was rejected with a vote of 5 to 1 by the eight judges of the court, with two who completely rejected the motion. The sentence came three months after Seoul’s Parliament accused the premier and then the president in office for his alleged role in the declaration of martial law, among other reasons. Four of the five judges who voted to reject Han’s impeachment recognized that there were constitutional and legal violations for his refusal to appoint judges to the court despite the vacant seats before the impeachment process of Yoon, but they observed that this did not justify his removal from the assignment. The six judges who voted to reject or confirm the impeachment said that there were no evidence in support of the accusations of the National Assembly, the Parliament, according to which Han would take proactive measures to give legitimacy to the request for the martial law of Yoon, as convening a meeting of the toilet before his declaration. All except two judges lined up with the National Assembly in deciding that the quorum to accuse Han was at least 151 out of 300 legislators, who applied to a prime minister, not 200, as in the case of a head of state.
