Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Taiwan President William Lai Ching-te and Premier Cho Jung-tai face impeachment proceedings filed by opposition party leaders accusing them of constitutional and legislative violations.
Members of Taiwan's KMT and TPP parties and two independent lawmakers secured enough support on Friday to advance impeachment proceedings to go before Taiwan's Constitutional Court, Al Jazeera reported.
The impeachment effort is viewed as symbolic because a two-thirds majority is needed to impeach an official holding public office in Taiwan.
"It's not possible to have a real impeachment," Yen-tu Su, a constitutional law and democratic theory expert at Taiwan's Academia Sinica, told Al Jazeera.
"They want to make a record that President Lai would be the first president considered impeached in the history of Taiwan's democracy," he said. "It's a way to register their protest."
