The Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on parliamentary Standing Orders amendments that would have lowered the threshold for impeaching the President or Vice-President by excluding vacant seats from the vote tally. A majority of the five-judge bench ordered a revert to counting all seats until the changes' constitutionality is fully examined, with two justices dissenting.
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a rule that necessitated 58 votes out of the total 87 members of parliament
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two-thirds of all lawmakers must vote in favour of impeachment for it to pass, a rule that necessitated 58 votes out of the total 87 members of parliament
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The amendment, however, reduced this requirement to 53 votes, accounting for the seven recent vacancies, when several legislators resigned to take posts in the executive.
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A majority of the five-judge bench concurred with this view, issuing an interim order to revert to the previous practice of counting all seats, irrespective of vacancies, until a final decision is made.
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