Amendment allowing hasty impeachment of President revised

The amendment brought about by the 19th parliament which allowed an expedited process of impeaching the president and vice president has been revised by the 20th parliament which took oath this year.

Following the general committee's efforts to change the existing procedures on impeachment brought in effect by the 19th parliament, the committee's report detailed that members identified the duration set for the process of impeachment to be insufficient.

These amendments were passed suddenly at the time, and were met with some concern as well.

The initial amendment required a seven member committee to investigate a motion to impeach the president or vice president within a maximum of five days. The new committee has now extended this deadline to ten days.

The initial amendment also called for a two-hour notice to appear regarding impeachment investigations. However, the committee found this to be too short and extended the notice period to five days.

The six hour notice for members to attend the committee's meetings was also revised to a 24-hour notice period, as well as the previously afforded two-day period for the president to revert back on the committee's report, which was extended to seven days.

The amendments were passed today with the vote of 64 of the 65 members in attendance.