In two and a half hours of martial law, "Request for lifting"... "The martial law declaration is invalid."

[Anchor]
The National Assembly passed a resolution calling for the lifting of Yoon Suk Yeol's emergency decree within two and a half hours.

Late at night, 190 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties gathered at the plenary session hall, and reporter Lim Sung-jae delivered the urgent process.

[Reporter]
At 10:25 p.m. last night, when President Yoon declared an emergency martial law, the ruling and opposition parties immediately issued an emergency convocation order to their lawmakers.

The Democratic Party sent an emergency text message to notify its lawmakers, aides and party officials to gather at the National Assembly's main office,

[Lee Jae-myung / Representative of the Democratic Party of Korea: Emergency martial law in Korea, an advanced powerhouse in the 21st century.... We need to protect democracy. People, please come to the National Assembly.]

Representative Han Dong-hoon also held an emergency meeting at the headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, and immediately moved to the National Assembly building with some lawmakers.

[Han Dong-hoon / Representative of the People's Power: Please feel at ease. We will definitely prevent illegal and unconstitutional emergency martial law.]

However, as the main gate of the National Assembly was closed, some lawmakers had to turn away, and only at 0:47 a.m. did 190 lawmakers gather in the plenary hall to mind the meeting.

They were 18 members of the ruling People's Power, 171 opposition lawmakers, including the Democratic Party, and chairman Woo Won-sik.

[Won-Sik Woo / Speaker of the National Assembly: Please arrange your seats. I will mind the 15th meeting because of your support.]

However, due to the preparation of the agenda, the voting process did not take place for about 10 minutes,

"Lawmakers, let's hold back. Let's stay calm!"

About 150 minutes after the declaration of the emergency martial law, a resolution demanding the lifting of the emergency martial law was officially proposed at around 1 a.m. and the voting process began.

All 190 members of the Assembly voted in favor of "release of the martial law."

[Won-Sik Woo / Speaker of the National Assembly: Of the 190 present, 190 are in favor, declaring that the resolution to lift emergency martial law has been passed]

After the vote, Wu declared that the martial law declaration was null and void.

He also asked the military and police in the precinct to leave the National Assembly.

I'm YTN's Lim Sungjae.

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editing video;Han Su-min