Impeaching acting president HAN Duck-soo was a predictable yet unfortunate move for LEE Jae-myung. We already knew that he would try anything to rush the full takeover of the judiciary system by his legislative majority before his trials and appeals go all the way, and we already knew that they could create any artificial conflict to impeach officials and paralyze the executive power, but the optics of his latest stunt are not very pretty, and kind of bring his own camp almost down to the level of their opponents.
Don't get me wrong: there's no moral equivalence between YOON Suk-yeol's outrageous martial law declaration and LEE's political tactics, but this botched process that even bypassed standard usages to force new supreme justices only feeds YOON's twisted narrative: LEE's DP is abusing its power to de facto rule the nation, and undermining it by forging unnecessary crises.
If LEE's hardcore fans will applaud a new point scored 'for democracy', his adversaries, including within his party, may be rejoicing for an own goal.
The question is not whether YOON will be impeached, nor even when, but whether LEE will at long last face justice. And whether the good guys within his party, who'd make much better presidents than he, will have the guts to defy him instead of waiting for five years.
Meanwhile, former finance minister CHOI Sang-mok becomes the new acting president in this Squid Game version of the musical chairs.
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