South Korean president’s impeachment fails after ruling party lawmakers walk out
South Korea's SEOUL Members of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's ruling party departed parliament on Saturday before the scheduled vote, thwarting an attempt to remove him from office for his brief declaration of martial law.
After voting on a separate motion, the 192 opposition MPs were eight votes short of the two-thirds majority required for the impeachment motion to be successful, and members of the People Power Party (PPP) were yelled at and swore at as they departed in large numbers.
In the midst of seething public ire over Yoon's confusing directive that threw the East Asian democracy and important U.S. ally into upheaval, opposition MPs had stated that they would revisit the impeachment resolution on Wednesday if it failed.
In a brief nationally televised speech earlier Satu...