The opposition-led National Assembly has passed motions to impeach Board of Audit and Inspection(BAI) Chair Choe Jae-hae and three senior prosecutors at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office.

The four motions were passed during a plenary session on Thursday. 

Lawmakers from the ruling People Power Party protested the motions by refusing to attend the session.

The Democratic Party filed the impeachment motion against the BAI chief for alleged irregularities in the agency’s audit of the presidential office’s 2022 relocation and because Choe refused to provide documents requested by parliament regarding that audit.

Choe is immediately suspended from his duties and has become the first BAI chief in the nation’s constitutional history to be impeached. 

The three prosecutors, including Lee Chang-soo, chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, were impeached over their decision not to indict the first lady after investigating her alleged role in a stock manipulation case.