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PARLIAMENT elected controversial former justice minister Hwang Kyo Ahn yesterday as South Korea’s third prime minister this year.
The National Assembly voted by 156 votes to 120 to approve president Park Geun Hye’s choice for the position, who would take over in case of the president’s incapacitation.
Mr Hwang replaces Lee Man Koo who resigned in April over allegations that he and other ministers took bribes from a businessman who had committed suicide weeks earlier.
Mr Lee had only served since February, after Chung Hong Won resigned over government handling of the MV Sewol ferry disaster that killed 304 people.
Mr Hwang petitioned the country’s constitutional court last year to disband the opposition social democratic Unified Progressive Party, which favours reunification with North Korea, and to expel its MPs from parliament.
The ban on the UPP was criticised for harking back to the decades of South Korea’s military dictatorship.
