Absolutely crazy how this went down. The impeachment vote needs a 2/3rds supermajority to pass. So 200 out of the 300 seats. The Government’s party controls 108 seats to 192 others, so they only needed 8 government Members needed to defect for it to pass. Party discipline would naturally keep people in line, but this vote is anonymous, so a small number could very easily defect without getting disciplined.
So, rather than risk that, the People Power’s official stance was that they would abstain from the vote by leaving the building.
The opposition says they will resubmit this motion every week until either it succeeds or Yoon steps down.
Bear with me …
By leaving they made sure no member could vote against party line. By that anybody that was planning to vote for the motion would need to stay and be visible. Smart.
Absolutely crazy how this went down. The impeachment vote needs a 2/3rds supermajority to pass. So 200 out of the 300 seats. The Government’s party controls 108 seats to 192 others, so they only needed 8 government Members needed to defect for it to pass. Party discipline would naturally keep people in line, but this vote is anonymous, so a small number could very easily defect without getting disciplined.
So, rather than risk that, the People Power’s official stance was that they would abstain from the vote by leaving the building.
The opposition says they will resubmit this motion every week until either it succeeds or Yoon steps down.
Bear with me … By leaving they made sure no member could vote against party line. By that anybody that was planning to vote for the motion would need to stay and be visible. Smart.
Yup, exactly
Hum… They just got a device for excluding the president’s party from the legislative process?