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South Korean President Impeached

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Re: South Korean President Impeached

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> The nation now must hold a presidential election within 60 days, making it likely to fall on May 9. This is different from how it works in USG where Congress elects a new President themselves from within Congress. At least that's what my understanding is from googling around, no President has been convicted in an impeachment trial. Edit: As later comments have pointed out I'm wrong here, instead the normal line of…

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Re: South Korean President Impeached

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> The nation now must hold a presidential election within 60 days, making it likely to fall on May 9. This is different from how it works in USG where Congress elects a new President themselves from within Congress. At least that's what my understanding is from googling around, no President has been convicted in an impeachment trial. Edit: As later comments have pointed out I'm wrong here, instead the normal line of…

No, if the sitting President is impeached, succession proceeds as if the President had resigned, and the Vice President assumes the office.

Re: South Korean President Impeached

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post #11

> The nation now must hold a presidential election within 60 days, making it likely to fall on May 9. This is different from how it works in USG where Congress elects a new President themselves from within Congress. At least that's what my understanding is from googling around, no President has been convicted in an impeachment trial. Edit: As later comments have pointed out I'm wrong here, instead the normal line of…

What is USG?

United States Government

Re: South Korean President Impeached

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post #11

> The nation now must hold a presidential election within 60 days, making it likely to fall on May 9. This is different from how it works in USG where Congress elects a new President themselves from within Congress. At least that's what my understanding is from googling around, no President has been convicted in an impeachment trial. Edit: As later comments have pointed out I'm wrong here, instead the normal line of…

What is USG?

US Government

Re: South Korean President Impeached

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The South Korean presidential scandal is one of the odder bits of contemporary political history. Imagine an alternate-history US President Hillary Clinton being impeached over PizzaGate and it starts to get close. Besides the actual corruption mentioned in the article, there are credible reports swirling of a "8 Goddesses" cabal and various occult practices.

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-irrational-downfa...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/29/499864915/...

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/76...

https://medium.com/@thepenningtonlens/the-south-korean-puppe...

Re: South Korean President Impeached

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> The nation now must hold a presidential election within 60 days, making it likely to fall on May 9. This is different from how it works in USG where Congress elects a new President themselves from within Congress. At least that's what my understanding is from googling around, no President has been convicted in an impeachment trial. Edit: As later comments have pointed out I'm wrong here, instead the normal line of…

The US Congress does not choose a new president if the current president is removed. The normal line of succession applies: Vice President, then Speaker of the House, then President Pro Tem of the Senate, etc. This was clarified in the 25th amendment.

No US president has been convicted in an impeachment trial, but when Nixon resigned, the normal rules of succession applied. Congress did appoint Gerald Ford as VP before Nixon resigned, but they were only able to do that because Nixon's previous VP had himself resigned, because he was a crook too. That is probably a source of confusion for a lot of people.

Re: South Korean President Impeached

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> The nation now must hold a presidential election within 60 days, making it likely to fall on May 9. This is different from how it works in USG where Congress elects a new President themselves from within Congress. At least that's what my understanding is from googling around, no President has been convicted in an impeachment trial. Edit: As later comments have pointed out I'm wrong here, instead the normal line of…

Short, interesting, and relevant: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidential_line_of_...
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