How other countries do Impeachment 

13:58 You missed an occurrence in 1999, when Queen Amidala of the Naboo moved for a vote of no-confidence in Chancellor Valorum.

The reason France has had the least resignations is because every time they get a hint of scandal they just form a new republic

Yes finally it feels like I have been waiting a full week for this

Alternate explanation for France's lack of shame resignations: the French feel no shame.

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the South Korean impeachment process, considering they actually removed their president a few years back. In short, how it works is that a simple majority of the unicameral National Assembly must back a motion of impeachment followed by a 2/3 majority vote for removal.

I like the vote of no confidence because it doesn't pretend to be something it isn't.

French président Charles de Gaulle resigned after losing a referendum in the late 60's

"France must have the least corrupt, most liked politicians" *Hollande who had a 4% approval rating intensifies*

Australia in 1975 had one of the most controversial removals of government ever. It's called "The Dismissal", and it occurred because the Senate blocked the supply bill and prevented the government from functioning. It was extremely controversial because in Australia (like Canada) government is determined by who carries the confidence in the lower house, but the government was effectively thrown out by the upper house. It was even more controversial because the Governor-General was the one who broke the deadlock by removing the Prime Minister despite not being elected.

I really like how you use graphics and sound effects to make an usually boring topic very informative and interesting.

I think this topic has potential for serie J.J, i believe "impeachment process" is a subject who interest a lot a of people around the world. love your vids man

My conceptions on removal: Vote of no confidence: Should be partisan, should be a leverage to control governing mandate Impeachment: should be on non-partisan, and related to crimes and the constitution not policy disagreements

"South Africa is a relatively stable democracy" Didn't age well.

Was that ... a peach at the end because it’s a video on imPEACHment?! I love it 😂

JJ! 11:13 In Portuguese our J is pronounced almost the same way as in English, the way you said it sounded just like Spanish in regards to the name "José". Awesome video as always

*_“wHeN tHE PrESIdenT dOes iT thAt meAnS iT iS nOT iLLEgal”_*

As others have already point out, an important issue with this video is that you're not really taking into account the huge difference between parliamentarism and presidentialism: Parliamentarist heads of government are quite easy to remove since the whole point of that system is that parliament itself chooses the head of government, as in Germany. Instead, presidentialist heads of government (which are usually called presidents) are much more difficult to remove because the people itself is supposed to elect and remove him directly every election. Impeachment means breaking the strict separation of powers in these systems, having the legislative power meddle with the executive power, that is supposed not to happen, and therefore only justified in extreme cases such as high treason. France is a funny case being semipresidentialist: in everyday politics it's presidentialist (people elect a president, head of state that also is head of government) although the prime minister is elected by parliament, but usually they just act as chif of staff or similar. Nonetheless, in the case that the parliament is no longer in favour of the president after an election, which happens once in a while, they can elect a prime minister who's from a different party. So, to adapt itself, the president becomes a simple head of state, a symbol as in the british monarch (tho with still a lot of special powers reserved for special occasions), and the PM is the true head of government and actual leader of the executive branch (now he does all the job) (Btw, I'm studying politics at university and I just finished learning this)

19:17 *laughs in 4% and 17% approval ratings*

As someone who speaks Hebrew, I'm impressed the photos you chose actually say the right things.

Other democratic countries: *have impeachments* Me a HKer: [cries in廣東話]

In Terry Pratchetts the "Lost Continent", a loosely disguised version of Australia, once elected the membership of the Parliament are immediately thrown into Prison, in the interest of saving time and expense. It always seemed like a good idea to me.

I love these videos, it's really interesting to me. I don't know what specifically I want to do, but I want to apply to Uni soon, and hopefully find something in the realm of politics. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear it

I can see why this video took an extra day, must have needed a lot or research and been difficult to write.

Just to make clear about Israel: it doesn't have a constitution, but it has "Book of Laws"; and it doesn't have lower and upper houses but just one "house" with 120 seats - The Knesset.

Ahh, now I know why you asked me about the Basic Laws and ambiguous constitutionality!

When you've already watched the first upload, you now try to find if there are any differences between the two videos.

Thank you JJ! I was missing my weekly dose of my favorite Canadian this week. I have honestly been very curious about this subject recently!

Very cool video!!! I adored the retro sounds and drawings!! :D Big hugs from Quebec!!

Meanwhile in Australia the last four Prime Ministers have been removed from office before the next election.

The swiss system is one of the democracies that actually doesn't have a way of impeachment, except for Judges when they are tried by a court, removal is one of the choices of punishment, but needs approval from the parliament.

Interesting video. I have an impeachment video planned for the very near future, and I got concerned when you sent me the line to read and it was about impeachment. Luckily my take is different than what you have here, and more America centric.

This is a well researched and very well made video. I always enjoy your explanatory graphics!

Hey! I saw you had some difficulty pronouncing the name of the brazillian historian. Just a small tip: in portuguese, the J sound is much more similar to the english J then the spanish one, that is more an R sound.

These videos are so interesting! They must seriously take you a week to make... honestly there’s a lot here. Also I love that JJ sounds sarcastically skeptical about everything. 😂

I have to make a research on the impeachment process and this video comes out at the exact right moment! Thank you very much JJ for all the work you put in clarifying this subject. Best regards from France!

Great video JJ! I would add that in South Africa we actually have both impeachment and the vote of no confidence as methods to remove the President. As you mention, impeachment (section 89 of the Constitution) requires a two-thirds majority and bans the President from holding public office in future. But Parliament can also, by a simple majority vote of no confidence (section 102 of the Constitution) force the President to resign without banning him from future office. This is one example of how our President is actually a hybrid mix of President and Prime Minister.

Fab video! Love comparative politics, especially in areas I hadn't considered

4:40 I feel like I can add to this. If an MP is convicted and is serving a year or more in prison, then they are automatically removed from their position as MP. Since the UK Prime Minister has to be an MP, that means that if Boris had to serve a year's time in Her Majesty's Pleasure, he'd be removed from office.

I love the way you explain things and make them much easier to understand.

In Australia, the party of the pm do a pretty good job at removing the pm anyway. In the last 2 decades we have had 7 pm’s

Ah, you reuploaded! I was getting worried for a while there.

"A person installed by the nations government can't overthrow that government!" Sir John Kerr: "Hold my Beer."

*Hurries up and skips to where I was in the video before it was taken down to make sure I can see the whole thing this time* Not sure what happened there, but I like this video, J.J.! It’s quite relevant, interesting, and obviously well-researched. It reminds me of something I’d present for a school project. Worth the wait!

I have been waiting for this all day

Cool and very informative video! Maybe you should have mentioned Australia too, as their so-called leadership spill system results in the Prime Minister being removed from office around every second year on average, sometimes a few months before the general election as we saw in 2010 and 2013. :D And for the case of France, Presidents might have managed to serve their full terms since 1969 (when Charles De Gaulle resigned over a lost referendum), but France also has a Prime Minister, who resigns relatively often due to reasons you talked about in the video (bad poll numbers, loss of legislative majority, dissatisfaction within the party).

I think that 1 month after a general election there ought to be an automatic "buyer's remorse" election, to ask the public if they want a do-over 😁😂

Another fantastic video, JJ! Just a quick observation about your analysis of the UK system. The 14 day rule was only introduced in 2011 by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (FTPA). Before then, if Parliament passed a vote of no confidence, the PM had the option of immediately calling an early election or handing in his resignation to the Queen and asking Her Majesty to appoint the Leader of the Opposition as the new PM. In 1979, once the results of the vote were announced, Callaghan stood up and said to the House, "We shall take our case to the country." Then he went straight to the Palace, asked the Queen to call an election, and the rest is history. Edit: In March this year, Parliament passed the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, which repealed the FTPA and restored the previous system, allowing the PM to ask the Queen to call an election at any time.

Great video on this topic, You add more understanding to a lot of topics!

Best way to see if a leader must be removed: have him wrestle with the leader of the opposition on the legislature floor

Interestingly Margaret Thatcher was removed by her own party too lol

Thanks J.J. You’re the only person who could make this subject funny 😂

Great video as always. Very well researched.

Brazil is such a crazy country that we can do two Impeachments in less than 30 years and still have one of the impeached presidents in the Senate 💙💛💚

Excellent job, JJ! Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication, and real research and art for every video. I always look forward to your videos! Also I might add that as a conservative pundit, you never express videos to the right, always maintaining neutrality, which I can perfectly understand may sometimes be a challenge.

The lighting on this video is much better than the last video, it seems less artificial, good job

Great analysis like always.

Second time's the charm

I like those Japanese era dates. Good summary of how impeachment works.

Another fantastic video

So, I’ve had many flavors or JJ since I found you, and I must say… I love Long-form JJ

Not in Switzerland And as we don't have a president there are 7 minister The president is mainly just a title

An observation about Fernando Collor de Melo: even though he resigned to avoid having his electoral rights suspended, the Congress didn't accept it, decided to continue with the Impeachment and suspended his electoral rights anyway.

I love your videos JJ

Hey J.J. ... I just found your channel and can't stop binging; ~ You're charismatic and have a harmonic voice ~ Your voice is engaging ~ you're straight to the point, no rambling to increase video Gane ~ You explain cultural differences in fun, quick and effeciant ways ~ You don't gbet for subs, likes or Donations

I'm surprised a video of impeachment in Democratic countries omitted South Korea. Surely they're more recently democratic but IMO they proved a major example in the concept of impeachment in a peaceful manner.

This is a very good condensed explanation! Brazil is, as always, more complicated .Some details missing on Collor's impeachment procedure and the punishment for an impeached president. In addition, Brazil also impeached two other presidents (Carlos Luz and João Café Filho), both in November, 1955.... But the video is almost 20 min. long and focusing on those minor details would not contribute in anything to the point you were making. I say this is a good comparative explanation on impeachment/no confidence procedures!

Israel saw one such Vote of no Confidence pass in 1990 when PM Shamir's parliament voted him out. It was achieved by a simple majority, which meant only 30 or so MPs voted him out on a weak day at the parliament (a.k.a "the dirty trick" in Israeli history). Since then the law has been changed so that it requires 61 MPs (over half of the house) to vote no confidence, thus actually proving that the coalition no longer has a ruling majority to continue. This way the parliament actually votes itself out, and so it's virtually inconceivable for that to ever be achieved.

There was a really famous impeachment like thing in Australia in 1975 where the governor-general sacked the Prime minister. It's called "the dismissal"

bruh, what about glorious canada?

true notification squad remembers, that this is a 2nd upload, jk

I just realized you have the Lowell National Park magnet, I am weirdly honored being from Lowell

The game references are some of the greatest examples of why this channel is awesome

The whole vague wording in many impeachment wording laid out in any constitution or article of confederation is really stupid. You honestly need to have precise wording or anyone can argue on the opposite side that "action" is not a crime any where.

You fixed the 2 thirds representations, well done. There were 3 quarters in the circles before the re-upload

This video was impeached out of my subscription box

just realized i wasnt subscribed and did it. thank you for your detailed and interesting reporting big guy :)

Eh...the Yellow vests would like to talk with you...

Please explain the Wexit movement in Alberta and Saskatchewan

I see that the second time uploading is the winner

Saw this a bit late, but this is a lot of great information.

Would of been a great time to talk about Tony Abbott in Australia when he got sacked as prime minister.

15:98 The last competent German chancellor ... (And propably one of the best country leaders of all time)

It just gets better the second time.

Recall petitions can be filed by the parliamentary constituents of any UK MP including the PM for certain reasons including criminal conviction. There was a Labour MP who spent years in prison but was still an MP during that time until they lost their seat in a recall election.

1:04 "I picked these countries because [...] their political systems have all evolved relatively independently from each other." Uhmm... do you not know that in 1964 the USA launched a military coup in Brazil? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat The one that turned the country into a military dictatorship for several years? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TrUXs-5Ins4.html

important to note that israel doesnt have a constitution, they are called "basic laws"

Dilma Rousseff is so unpopular now that Forbes elected her as being the most disappointing leader of 2018, she gained 314 thousand votes, the 2nd place leader got 17 thousand votes she was so irrelevant (and still is ) that she ended up in 4th place for one of the seats in senate for her state at that year

Yay you uploaded

we had two resign out of same in 3 years. Mr Referendum man and Mrs Thatcher 2.0

Why didn’t you do one for Canada?

Yes FINALLY! My weekend is complete!

Take a look at Malta for the next vid. Shits crazy here rn

Didn't South Korea just oust and Jail their former leader?

You realize that you spelled “Israel” as “Isreal”. Even though in English the two sound similar, in Hebrew they are different. Yisra and El were originally two separate words that were merged to form Israel.

Hahah nice France joke at the end

Hey JJ! Great video! This has been a subject of interest from some years ago when friends and I were looking at starting a nonprofit organization and had to write its constitution/bylaws. This issue, along with term limits and whether certain officers would be elected or appointed and by whom (elected by members, elected by the board, appointed by the executive) came up. What do you think of the Recall option that is written into some US states’ constitutions? That’s where the people of the state sign petitions to put the removal (to recall) of an elected officer on the ballot for people to vote for or against. We’ve seen it used both by partisans and nonpartisans in those states for legislators, governors, etc. In my state we don’t have recall option for elected officials, but have retention for appointed leaders like State Supreme Court judges where every four years voters get to decide whether or not those appointed folks get to retain being in office or not. What do you think about that option as well?

Why'd you have to reupload?

Ah yes this video is not avaliable

great video!

House of Representatives: the senate will decide your fate Trump: I am the senate