South Korea's Yoon removed from office in second impeachment vote: Video
South Korean lawmakers removed the country's 13th president from office in a second impeachment vote on Saturday, December 14.
This comes after a controversial martial law initiated or imposed by former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The second process was expected to have the same outcome as the first which had Yoon's party members shield him from impeachment.
However, just before the vote on Saturday morning, seven members of Yoon's People Power Party (PPP) publicly declared their desire to support the impeachment.
The opposition party, the Democratic Party has 192 seats in parliament and just needed at least 8 PPP votes to pass the motion.
On December 3, President Yoon declared martial law which saw almost 300 heavily armed soldiers and several lawmakers rust to parliament to reverse it barely six hours after its declaration.
According to South Korea's constitution, martial law allows the president to control press freedom, and limit powers of government agencies or the assembly.
It can, however, only be declared in “wartime, war-like situations or other comparable national emergency states.”
