A motion to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has failed as National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik closed the session, which had stalled for hours after legislators from the governing party boycotted the vote, Al Jazeera reports.
Nearly all 108 members of Yoon’s People Power Party (PPP) walked out of the chamber before the vote on Saturday, prompting angry reactions from opposition legislators, with some accusing them of being “accomplices to insurrection”.
“We cannot repeat another tragedy of paralised government,” said a spokesperson for South Korea’s ruling party after the vote fell through, prompting the PPP’s floor leader, Choo, to offer his resignation.
The walkout came hours after the embattled leader apologised for his short-lived attempt to impose martial law earlier this week.
Up for a vote earlier was a bill to investigate First Lady Kim Keon-hee, who is seen as a driving force behind Yoon’s decision to impose martial law, which failed. The PPP parliamentarians walked out after that vote.
