The motion to impeach South Korea’s president Yoon failed today in the parliament after Yoon’s governing People Power Party (PPP) left the chamber. CGTN’s Ciaran McQuillan reports.
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00:00There were chaotic scenes in the National Assembly building behind me in the Parliamentary
00:05Chambers. That impeachment vote was about to go through. 108 members of the ruling People Power
00:14Party, the vast majority of them dramatically walking out of the Chamber just as that
00:19impeachment vote was about to go through. There are 200 votes required, two-thirds that is,
00:25of the 300-member Chamber, so not enough votes this time around to impeach President
00:31Jun. The opposition say they will try again on Wednesday, which is the next time that the
00:38National Assembly behind me will sit. Now, despite nationwide protests calling on President Jun
00:45to step aside, he's not been seen in public since Tuesday when he made that declaration
00:51of martial law. He did, however, briefly appear on national television this morning.
00:55He apologized for his actions. He said he would take full responsibility, that he would not
01:01shirk away from the legal or political responsibilities, and that he would leave it
01:06to his party, the People Power Party, to chart a course through the current political chaos.
01:12It does seem that the party has indeed charted that course by walking out of the Chamber here.
01:17South Korean politics very much paralyzed now. President Jun throwing this country into turmoil,
01:25the worst political crisis since the impeachment of President Park Hong-hae back in 2016.