In the South Korean parliament, the largest opposition party has submitted an impeachment bill to question the responsibility of the minister in charge of the mass accident that occurred in Itaewon, a downtown area in Seoul, South Korea, in which 159 people, including two Japanese, died. , was passed on the 8th.
The conflict between the ruling and opposition parties is deepening over the responsibility of the authorities' response.
In South Korea's parliament, the largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Korea, which accounts for a majority, has impeached Lee Sang-min, who manages and supervises the police, to be dismissed for his sloppy handling of the mass accident. filed an indictment.
The impeachment bill was passed on the 8th, the Minister of Public Administration and Security Lee was suspended from his duties, and now the Constitutional Court will decide whether to impeach.
Regarding this, the South Korean presidential office issued a comment criticizing that "it will be recorded as a shameful history in the history of parliamentary politics," and the ruling party "People's Power" that supports the Yoon Sung-yeol administration strongly opposes it. .
In South Korea, the conflict between the ruling and opposition parties is deepening over the responsibility of the authorities' response to the mass accident that left many victims, but no progress has been made in discussing specific measures to prevent a recurrence of the accident. .