With the contested vote to dismiss the interim president by the National Assembly on Friday, December 27, and the delaying tactics of the already dismissed president, Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea is sinking a little deeper into a political crisis. The motion filed to suspend Han Duck-soo's powers was voted by all 192 opposition MPs. Prime Minister, Mr. Han had been acting president since the dismissal of Yoon Suk Yeol, ousted after his declaration of martial law on December 3. Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok succeeds him as interim president.
The democratic opposition wanted Mr. Han to leave because it accuses him of complicity in Mr. Yoon's coup and accuses him of having refused to validate, on December 26, the nomination of three judges, submitted by the National Assembly, to fill the vacant seats on the Constitutional Court. The court, which must rule on the impeachment of President Yoon and now that of Mr. Han, can make decisions with the six judges currently sitting, but a quorum of seven judges is normally required.
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