President Yoon Suk Yeol’s senior aides offered to resign en masse on Wednesday after the National Assembly overturned the emergency declaration of martial law that Yoon declared late Tuesday night.

According to the presidential office, chief of staff Chung Jin-suk and Yoon’s chief secretaries offered to step down on Wednesday morning. 

The collective resignation comes after Yoon lifted martial law early Wednesday morning in accordance with a unanimous vote by the National Assembly.

Yoon announced the decision to lift martial law in a televised address at approximately 4:20 a.m., some six hours after he declared a state of emergency and branded opposition lawmakers as “anti-state forces” who were paralyzing essential government functions.