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According to the UC bylaws, a petition with ten signatures and a vote of two-thirds of the UC is needed to impeach a member. Greenfield said that attaining a two-thirds majority would be nearly impossible in the case of most members, and in particular Nichols, who Greenfield said has a lot of friends...
...will one day mirror the E.U. Justices Found Wanting ECUADOR A new Supreme Court took office a day after Congress voted to replace 27 of its 31 members. President Lucio Gutiérrez said that the previous Supreme Court was biased toward the Social Christian opposition, which tried to impeach him last month...
...Blair. Two weeks ago, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan bluntly declared the war illegal. The Iraq Survey Group is shortly expected to report formally that the weapons of mass destruction on which Blair based his case for war cannot be found. An eccentric but still damaging motion to impeach him for misleading Parliament over Iraq is making some waves. Recently leaked documents show that senior colleagues had warned him that Washington's postwar plans were inadequate, and that terrorism would likely increase after a war - something he did not tell the country at the time. Looking unusually defensive, Blair used...
...Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller announced in March that he will step down May 2 - a day after his country joins the E.U. - after his ruling party split amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement. There is similar turmoil in Lithuania, where deputies voted to impeach scandal-plagued President Rolandas Paksas. But given Paksas' reputation for erratic behavior, the change will likely improve Lithuania's image within...
...would be easy to conclude that Roh's impeachment will kill off his presidency. But his reformist agenda and his direct approach to voters still carry wide popular appeal. Some observers say opposition lawmakers felt they had to impeach Roh to prevent Uri Party candidates from sweeping the upcoming election. "This was their final gamble," explains Cho Ki Suk, an expert on Korean politics at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. "What else could [opposition politicians] do?" Says Hahm Sung Deuk, professor of political economy at Korea University in Seoul: "The impeachment was a political game of chicken...