The impeachment motion against Yoon was reported to a plenary session that opened shortly after midnight on Thursday and paved the best way for an impeachment vote to be held within the following 24 to 72 hours.
Opposition events want a two-thirds majority to move the invoice, and help from about eight members from Yoon’s personal social gathering to safe the mandatory 200 votes to question him. If the invoice passes, South Korea’s Constitutional Court docket will then resolve whether or not to uphold the movement – a course of that might take as much as 180 days.
If Yoon was suspended from exercising energy resulting from parliament passing the invoice, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo would fill in as chief.
If the embattled president resigned or was faraway from workplace, a brand new election can be held inside 60 days.