Thousands of protestors carry effigies of the South Korean president and floats depicting her in jail as they demand her resignation Saturday Dec 10,2016

Effigies of South Korea's president have been carried through the streets by huge crowds demanding she steps down, a day after being impeached - Saturday Dec 10,2016

An estimated 200,000 packed into downtown Seoul for a rally against President Park Geun-hye for the seventh straight weekend.

Nine judges will decide Park's fate after parliament voted overwhelmingly to impeach her over allegations she colluded with a friend and former aid to pressure businesses into donating to foundations set up to back her policies.

TIMELINE OF A SCANDAL: THE REVELATIONS THAT ROCKED SOUTH KOREA AND LED TO A PRESIDENT BEING IMPEACHED 

July 27,2016 - Cable news channel TV Chosun reports on suspicions that Ahn Jong-beom, Park's former senior secretary for policy coordination, pressured large companies into donating to K-Sports, a nonprofit organization aimed at internationally promoting South Korean sports.

September 20 - Newspaper Hankyoreh reports that Choi Soon-sil, Park's friend and the daughter of Park's late longtime mentor, was involved in establishing and running K-Sports.

October 24 - Cable news channel JTBC, citing files found from a tablet computer said to have been used by Choi, reports that Choi, who has no official government role, received classified government information, such as advance drafts of presidential speeches.

October 25 - Park publicly acknowledges her close ties with Choi, and says Choi helped her on speeches and public relations issues during her 2012 presidential campaign and after her 2013 inauguration.

October 27 - State prosecutors launch a special investigation team to look into the scandal

October 29 - First anti-Park rally in Seoul.

October 30 - Choi returns to South Korea from Germany. Two days later, she tells reporters she "committed a sin that deserves death" while being rushed into a Seoul prosecutors' office for questioning.

November 4 - Park in her second apology over the scandal expresses remorse and reaches out for sympathy, but denies that she was involved in any legal wrongdoing. Park says she will accept a direct investigation into her actions.

November 12 - Hundreds of thousands of people rally in Seoul in the biggest demonstration to date calling for Park's removal.

November 20 - In indicting Choi and Park's two former aides, state prosecutors say they believe the president was "collusively involved" in criminal activities by the suspects, who allegedly bullied companies into giving tens of millions of dollars to foundations and businesses Choi controlled, and enabled Choi to interfere with state affairs. Park's lawyer calls the accusations groundless. He says Park will refuse questioning by state prosecutors and only cooperate with an independent probe led by a special prosecutor.

November 29 - Park, without providing a timeline, says she will leave office if parliament comes up with a stable power-transfer plan. Opposition lawmakers criticize the overture as a stalling ploy aimed at luring back members of her party who supported impeachment.

December 3 - Opposition lawmakers formally launch an attempt to impeach Park, setting up a floor vote as early as Friday. Hours later, massive crowds rally in Seoul calling for Park's ouster in what might be the biggest protest in the country's history. Police estimate the turnout at 320,000, while protest organizers size the crowd at 1.7 million. More than 2 million are said to protest across the nation.

December 9,2016 - The National Assembly impeaches Park, easily clearing the two-thirds majority needed. She is suspended, with duties transferred to Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, while the Constitutional Court decides whether to remove her from office. Park apologises to the nation for 'negligence'