The impeachment motion against Lai Ching-te has failed

 Direct Translation

The KMT-Presidential Alliance's impeachment motion against Lai Ching-te failed! Only one person in the Republic of China's constitutional history has successfully been impeached and removed from office

Reporter : Lin Hsin-han, Taipei / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/5441793 / Image : The KMT-Presidential Alliance's impeachment motion against Lai Ching-te failed in the Legislative Yuan vote. (Photo by Luo Pei-te)

The impeachment motion against President Lai Ching-te, proposed by the KMT-Presidential Alliance, was voted on as the second anniversary of President Lai Ching-te's inauguration approached, but ultimately failed. Looking back at the constitutional history of our country, the earliest person to be impeached was then Vice President Lee Tsung-jen in 1952. During his acting presidency, he resigned and went abroad, and after being removed from the acting presidency, he issued orders abroad, leading to impeachment by the Control Yuan and removal by the National Assembly. He is the only head of state in the constitutional history of our country to be successfully impeached and removed from office.

According to historical records from the Control Yuan, Lee Tsung-jen served as acting president in his capacity as vice president. However, Lee Tsung-jen remained in the United States for an extended period and did not return. In 1952, the Control Yuan passed an impeachment motion against Lee Tsung-jen, and in 1954, the National Assembly passed a motion to remove him from the position of vice president.

During the presidency of former President Chen Shui-bian, the KMT and PFP camps filed three impeachment motions in June, September, and November of 2006. This marked the first time in constitutional history, since the National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment on April 25, 1990, transferring the power to handle impeachment motions concerning the president and vice president to the Legislative Yuan, that legislators had filed an impeachment motion against the president. However, all three impeachment motions failed to obtain the required two-thirds majority vote from all legislators and were thus unsuccessful.