South Korean President Impeached

Post by markdown » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 5:50 AM UTC

lifthrasiir wrote: post #86

yongjik wrote: post #83

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I'm not a US history expert, but I think Nixon had very firm ideas about how to run a country. In the end, people did not approve of these ideas, but at least there was an internally coherent world view. The problem with Park is not that she had wrong ideas, but that she did not have any idea at all. Instead she let her close friend take care of the boring chore of running a country. During the past four years the co…

I agree. The point is that there is no US president comparable to Park, and probably the closest match is Nixon.

Post by nether » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 6:01 AM UTC

h4nkoslo wrote: post #17

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-down…

Post by Flammy » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 6:36 AM UTC

bane wrote: post #9

This is huge. Early analysis is that this is a net positive for Korean democracy since the entire process, from protests to ouster was relatively peaceful and the people involved in the ouster tried to follow the rule of law as much as possible. It's exercised for the first time a part of the legal system that's never been explored in the country. At each stage of the very complex process, the government figured out…

Post by chompomonim » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 6:55 AM UTC

Post by jdoliner » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 7:39 AM UTC

khuey wrote: post #80

jdoliner wrote: post #35

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I was basing my previous comment off of this (which might not be reliable): http://fsmsupremecourt.org/fsm/code/title02/T02_Ch01.htm But it includes the line: > If both the President and Vice President die, resign, or are impeached, the Speaker of the Congress shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the President as Acting President, and the Congress shall within thirty days of the last vacancy elect a Pres…

That site is for the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia.