With the addition of smaller parties and independents to the coalition, they can also impeach Musharraf and restore the judiciary, which he had deposed.

In March 2009, the current ruling coalition will gain more seats in the Senate, and the government would almost certainly try to impeach him again.

One of the three counts against Nixon in the vote to impeach Nixon by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee was based on such eavesdropping.

In 2001 the MPR decided to impeach the male president and appointed her, the then Vice President, to act as the President of the Republic until the end of the term in 2004.

The mood in the US today is far from the point that it reached in 1973 and 1974, when the drive to impeach Nixon and convict him in the US Senate forced him to resign.

For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some stroke of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be bleak. In March 2009, the current ruling coalition will gain more seats in the Senate, and the government would almost certainly try to impeach him again.

In theory, the Federal Assembly also functions as an instrument of checks and balances upon request by a two thirds majority of the National Council, it may impeach the president before the Constitutional Court, or upon request by a two thirds majority in the National Council decide on a referendum to have the president removed from office.