Impeachment

Impeachment removes a sitting executive in presidential systems. Parliamentary countries use a Vote of No Confidence instead.

Live targets:

• President (or equivalent national executive): two chambers. A sitting lower-chamber member files articles.
• Governor: the state's legislature, as a single conviction vote. A sitting member of that state's legislature files.

President (two chambers)#

1. House (or lower chamber). Seat-weighted majority of all seats in the chamber, not of votes cast. Voting window: 6 turns. Abstentions and seats that never vote count against passage.
2. Senate (or upper chamber). Seat-weighted two-thirds of all seats. Voting window: 6 turns. Same rule: abstentions and empty seats count against conviction.

NPP blocs holding seats vote alongside players. The target's party defends them, opposition blocs weigh the ideology, and unaligned blocs abstain rather than guess.

If the House does not impeach, the case ends. If the Senate convicts, the executive is removed.

Governor (one chamber)#

The case starts at the conviction stage. The state legislature needs two-thirds of all seats, same Senate rule, over 6 turns.

Cooldown#

After a filing, the same target cannot be impeached again for 48 turns (1 game year). That matches the VONC cooldown so repeat filings cannot grief a sitting executive.

What it is not#

Impeachment is not a VONC. It is not a SCOTUS case. Cabinet secretaries are removed by the President, not this flow.

See also: No-Confidence Votes, Cabinet, Congress Leadership.