Impeachment is voted down
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From Times Wire Reports
President Chen Shui-bian easily survived an impeachment vote in Taiwan’s legislature despite his wife’s indictment on embezzlement charges and a prosecutor’s statement that Chen could be indicted if he did not have presidential immunity.
The vote signaled that Chen would probably remain in office until the end of his second four-year term in 2008 unless new irregularities were brought to light or new charges were filed.
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