Impeachment of Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III

### Charges

* Affiliation with the Catholic Church while serving in office as the 11th Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria
* Perjury

### Result

Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III is impeached on two charges by Parliament, then resigned from office following Jezebel Isela Boleslaus's election before a Senate impeachment trial would take place.

## Parliamentary Vote

### Votes to Impeach

* **860 (Article I)** ✔
* **853 (Article II)** ✔

### Votes not to Impeach

* 37 (Article I)
* 31 (Article II)

### Other I

* 1 not voting on Article I
* 6 not voting on Article II

### Present I

* 2 (Article I)
* 10 (Article II)

Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III, 11th Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria, was impeached by Parliament due to allegations that he is a Roman Catholic while in public office because of his Irish bloodline on Friday, April 10, 2020, then MacCarthy resigned from the premiership to avoid a Senate impeachment trial and potential conviction following the emergency election of his successor, Jezebel Isela Boleslaus. Under Chawosaurian law, it is illegal for a Catholic to be in public office due to fears that Catholic politicians would govern based on the interests of the Vatican against the objections of the non-Catholic majority Chawosaurian people, who believe this type of governing would mean the Vatican is "controlling" politics in Chawosauria. MacCarthy is the first Prime Minister since Webster to face impeachment proceedings but MacCarthy is the first Prime Minister to be impeached.

MacCarthy, now impeached, would have to go through an Impeachment trial in the Senate, where he is potentially to be voted out of office via conviction vote if enough Senators believe MacCarthy is guilty, but his resignation mooted that process, it is complicated rather or not you can convict an impeached politician who is no longer in office, but that debate is now taking place in the United States following the second impeachment of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, though Trump is already set to leave office on January 20, 2021 due to losing the 2020 U.S. presidential election to challenger Joe Biden, many progressives in the U.S. Democratic Party (soon to be the presidential party again) that convicting Donald Trump is a path to another vote after conviction to block Donald Trump from running again for President in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and or other future office, that vote takes a simple majority to disqualify Trump and that is possible because the Democrats already took control of the U.S. Senate via two Senate runoff elections in the State of Georgia. Because of that discussion taking place in the United States, there are calls to reopen the impeachment trial against MacCarthy to convict him anyway and like the American presidential impeachment process, there is a process after convicting to vote rather to permanently disqualify that impeached and convicted individual from running for any public office, but unlike that process in the U.S., you need a supermajority from both chambers: the Parliament and the Senate, to agree to permanently disqualify MacCarthy from potentially returning to the premiership, in the Parliament, 500 votes are needed to disqualify MacCarthy, and in the Senate, 60 votes to disqualify.

Support for impeachment and MacCarthy's unpopularity soared as the allegations get worse, MacCarthy repeatedly denied the allegations that he was never a catholic but he was a protestant, but his denials were ignored because Irish people are a catholic-majority ethnic group, and MacCarthy is overwhelmingly Irish. The allegations are stereotypical, this stereotype is manipulated by anti-Irish sentiment in Chawosauria as Irish people who live in Chawosauria widely face discrimination and are troped as "unpatriotic" because they *"pledge loyalty to the Pope but not showing gratitude to Chawosauria for welcoming them"*. This belief about Irish Chawosaurians as taking advantage of Chawosauria's niceness deeply offends Chawosaurians and turns them against the Irish, contributing to discrimination against Irish Chawosaurians in employment, education, the judiciary, and other matters.

The votes required to impeach and remove MacCarthy is a supermajority in the Legislative Palace: 500 votes to officially impeach in the Chawosaurian Parliament, the Communist Party has 816 seats, meaning they can impeach MacCarthy, and the number of votes required to convict and remove MacCarthy in the Senate is 60, and the Communists have 77 seats in the Senate, meaning they can remove MacCarthy from office, and the Communist Party is unanimously pro-impeachment and pro-removal. Jezebel Isela Boleslaus was nominated Prime Minister by Shang Parker to replace MacCarthy after he is potentially impeached and removed from office, she served as Prime Minister from 2020 to 2022, when she resigned from the premiership over frustration with the Parker administration's handling of the Russian assault on Ukraine in 2022. This impeachment process against MacCarthy shined a light on the lack of line of succession that was long ignored for 160 years since the office was established in 1860, thus sparking a new political debate on to rather the premiership should be democratized due to a lack of line of succession that was realized by the impeachment proceedings. The Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria of 2022 had established an order of succession, it is oblivious that the MacCarthy impeachment played a role.

Some from the Chawopolis Palace, even Shang Parker, proposed a recall election instead of a formal impeachment vote, but the public opposed a recall election on prime minister MacCarthy because the public is tired from constantly called elections in the late 2010s.

MacCarthy got impeached at 1:00 AM, Friday, April 10, 2020, at the Parliament in a full vote. 860 votes total for impeachment (816 from communists and 44 from social democrats) on article 1, and on article 2, approved with 853 total votes, 816 from communists and 37 from social democrats. This was an unexpected bipartisan vote. Then MacCarthy resigned to avoid an incoming Senate impeachment trial after Boleslaus was elected to be his successor.

## Background

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### Previous warnings against nominating MacCarthy

As the 2010s were about to come to an end, Degotoga K. Atagulkalu was given the opportunity to pick a Prime Minister himself to replace the incumbent Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX, but was made with struggle with an ideologically divided 24th Chawopolis Palace. DKA first dominated Garfield Elton DeGroff for Prime Minister as a compromise to the conservative wing of his capitalist supermajority but progressives were the majority of the Capitalist supermajority and ended up voting him down. DKA tried other options, Degotoga K. Atagulkalu II, his son, and a success with Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XIX, only to be replaced due to a stroke.

DKA went with the progressive status quo and nominated Jonathan MacCarthy III. While the capitalists on the palace didn't warn DKA that because he is publicly known to be Irish, he would spell political trouble for the Capitalists as DKA insiders tried to warn DKA, but DKA, not fully aware of anti-catholicism in Chawosauria, accused his advisors of bigotry and nominated MacCarthy anyway. MacCarthy was elected Prime Minister on December 25, 2018.

### Allegations of religious ties with the Catholic Church

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Chawosauria long lives in bitter fear of a theocratic government and colonialization. They have feared this since European empires began colonizing lands of the New World on which Chawosauria lived and saw how the Catholic Church had political power over other nations in Europe back in the Viking Age. The reign of the Catholic Church contributed to the Crusades, a series of religious wars between Christian states and Muslim states back in the Medieval Times. This history causes Chawosaurians to despise both Christianity and Islam equally and discriminate both Christians and Muslims who live in Chawosauria.

MacCarthy is the first Christian since Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII in 40 years to take over as Prime Minister, and the first Irishman in forever in Chawosaurian History to become Prime Minister, but the biggest low of being the only Irish prime minister is that the fear of Vatican rule and the fact that Irish people are a Catholic majority ethnic group, at first, this problem was put aside by the capitalists but got worse by over a month of MacCarthy's premiership.

MacCarthy is not a Catholic, he is an Anglican Protestant. MacCarthy is facing allegations because of his Irish origin, and the fact that Chawosaurians deeply fear the influence the Vatican would have over Chawosaurian politics and the consequences they fear would have if MacCarthy really is an Irish Catholic.

### MacCarthy's rising unpopularity and rising support for Impeachment

Under Chawosaurian law, a politician can be (and must be) impeached for being a Catholic. This is part of the pro-*separation of church and state* laws of the Chawosaurian constitution. This legal fact made Chawosaurians support impeaching and removing MacCarthy over these allegations.

### Lessons and Inspirations from late 2010s Impeachments

The Chawosaurian Government learned very important lessons and were deeply inspired by the recent impeachments of three world leaders, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil who was impeached and removed in 2016, Park Geun-hye of South Korea who was impeached and removed in 2016-17 plus went to prison, and then Donald Trump of the United States impeached and acquitted in 2019-20.

Let's start with Dilma Rousseff, she was impeached and removed over allegations of committing budgetary crimes involving her reelection campaign in 2014, and this was part of a wave of scandals that taunted South American politics. This resulted in the so-called Conservative wave, prominently in Brazil in 2018 with the election of Jair Bolsonaro.

In South Korea, in the horizon of peril with the Korean Conflict, there was trouble with South Korean politics, President Park Geun-hye was caught in a political scandal that will result in the greatest humiliating downfall and satisfying fall from grace suffered by any head of state or any politician ever seen on TV. Park Geun-hye was caught being influenced with bribes by a cult leader named Choi Soon-sil, and a public outcry erupted South Korea, this resulted in her being impeached by the legislature and removed from office by the Constitutional Court of Korea, plus getting arrested on TV display and is now serving time in prison. After the impeachment drama, South Korea held a presidential election in 2017, and it saw the election of Moon Jae-in.

In the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump was caught in a crime worse than Rousseff and Park's crimes: attempting to bribe another country to support his reelection campaign against a tough opponent, this was proven by a whistleblower complaint who came out of the closet with only first-hand info, but then due to escalating accusations, Trump released the evidence that proved this scheme to show transparency, only to escalate the backlash in the process and Trump getting annoyed by the advice he had. The evidence contains a phone-line transcript between him and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the phone conversation, Trump first congratulated Zelensky for recently winning the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election, and then Trump said Ukraine was behind interference in the 2016 U.S. elections in Hillary Clinton's favor, and asked Zelensky to find evidence proving Ukraine's alleged involvement and debunk the conclusion of the United States Intelligence Community that Russia interfered with the 2016 elections in Trump's favor, Trump believed this Ukraine conspiracy theory about 2016 was because he feared that his victory in 2016 wasn't democratically legitimate. Trump then said in exchange for U.S. aid to Ukraine against Russia, Zelensky needed to investigate his top political opponent for 2020, Joe Biden, over his son Hunter's ties to Burisma, a Ukrainian oil and gas company, and give him the information for Trump to use against Biden. This resulted in Trump getting impeached by the Democrats in the House of Representatives but the Republicans in the Senate acquitted him out of blind loyalty, this would be seen as a further demoralization of the integrity of the U.S. federal government in a time when U.S. politics has already fallen from grace.

The Impeachments of Dilma Rousseff and Park Geun-hye had a positive impact on people who supported it, but the Impeachment of Donald Trump gave the Communist Party a warning, impeachment is not a game if it's not handled the right way. The Communist Party are orchestrating their first impeachment, but depending if they know to play the game is to be seen. The Communist Party knew from watching impeachment proceedings around the world that this impeachment they're pursuing against MacCarthy is politically risky, so they expect to handle it with time and effort.

## Impeachment Inquiry

### Accused

Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III, 11th Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria

### Proponents

James Boleslaus, 12th Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace

### Outcome

MacCarthy is impeached by the first article. Resigned 10-days following his impeachment on April 20, 2020.

### Charges

Religious affiliation with the Catholic Church while in political office

### Cause

Allegations that Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III is a roman catholic due to his Irish ancestry and fears of Vatican influence of Chawosaurian politics if the allegations are true

## Parliamentary Votes

### Accusation

* Affiliation with the Catholic Church while serving as Prime Minister
* Perjury

### Votes to Impeach

* 860 - Article I
* 853 - Article II

### Votes not to Impeach

* 37 - Article I
* 31 - Article II

### Voted Present

* 2 - Article I
* 10 - Article II

### Result

Prime Minister MacCarthy is impeached by Parliament

The Speaker of the Palace, James Boleslaus, bowed to rising popular pressure to impeach MacCarthy, and announced on television on January 31, 2020, that he will officially allow a formal impeachment inquiry plus impeachment proceedings against MacCarthy. This ended up forcing MacCarthy himself to drop out of the 2020 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election as a candidate for the public office of the Chawosaurian Leader of the Opposition against Emperor Shang Jong Parker.

On February 1, 2020, legislating day arrives, meaning the Chawopolis Palace, under the control of a new party, is now allowed under ethical standards to pass legislation and officially run the legislature. MacCarthy now the subject of impeachment, making him the first Prime Minister since Garfield Lucas Webster to be a subject of such an investigative process, now have to show appliance and try to challenge the inquiry as any investigated person has the right to do.

### Suspension of Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III

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The Chawopolis Palace voted (930-70) to suspend MacCarthy from his prime ministerial powers and responsibilities, thus stripping him of his powers, his authority, and his responsibilities as part of the amendments to the resolution to begin impeachment proceedings against MacCarthy. 930 votes for suspension, all 893 communists for, and 37 out of 107 social democrats for the suspension to 70 social democrats voting *"present"*. The suspension takes effect immediately.

### Parliamentary Investigations

The House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the House of Representatives all make up the Parliament while the Senate is separate and unicameral. The three Parliamentary houses band together to proceed with these impeachment proceedings against MacCarthy.

#### Request for cooperation from the MacCarthy Administration

The Parliament's Impeachment Inquiry Committee requested compliance and cooperation from the MacCarthy administration and not stonewalling or if choose to stonewall, it will be another article of impeachment slapping them in the face. That was the warning to MacCarthy from the impeachment inquiry.

MacCarthy signed a parliamentary agreement to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry without showing any bias. The Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party praised MacCarthy for this move, due to beliefs that this impeachment inquiry should be a nonpartisan inquiry, the Social Democrats attacking this inquiry as partisan would backfire electorally.

##### Subpoenas for documents

 Robert Monroe
 Daniel Walz

The people subpoenaed to have over documents successfully met the deadline to hand them over. This gives MacCarthy somewhat credibility, however, the reason the MacCarthy administration complied with the subpoenas because stonewalling a widely popular impeachment inquiry would lead to a backlash.

#### Depositions

Depositions (private hearings) are required to gain information about the matter the inquiry is investigating. On February 11, 2020, private hearings were approved by the Parliamentary Impeachment Committees. Private hearings and depositions began on February 13, 2020, on the subject of second hand information about allegations that MacCarthy is a Catholic. Private hearings asked for DNA results of MacCarthy and history of Catholicism within the MacCarthy family as evidence that MacCarthy has catholic ties.

#### Public Hearings

The Parliament voted to hold public hearings on February 29, 2020, which will start on March 1, 2020.

* **Ryan Roe**
* **Ronald Wallace**
* **Drake Gerald Dukes**
* **Joseph Bowes**
* **Mary Ann Walz**
* **Jay Cortez**
* **Francisco Dionisio Bermudez****, Senate Majority Leader**
* **Jane Stacey Martin**
* **Stacey Bailey**
* **Joseph M. Bailey**
* **Franklin Roosevelt Walz**
* **Karol Gantz**
* **Leonard Wallace**
* **Benedict La Rosa**
* **Kat La Rosa**
* **Leon De Rosa**
* **Lyndon Clinton**
**James Boleslaus****, Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace**

The public hearings were completed on March 26, 2020.

### Final Report

The final report will be finished by March 31, 2020, and released on April 1, 2020. Public debates on impeachment will last from April 3, 2020 - April 5, 2020, and the Parliamentary vote on articles of impeachment will occur on April 7, 2020. Debates will take place the day Impeachment Day comes, which was originally on April 10th but postponed to a different date because of the coronavirus pandemic.

## Impeachment and Resignation

### Impeachment

#### Articles of Impeachment

 Yes
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2. This Catholic has no business governing the Seven Continents and the Seven Seas of the Union of Continental Federal Republics of the Empire of Chawosauria in the interest of the Vatican against the objection of the people.
3. This Prime Minister shall be impeached and removed from office because of the crimes listed above in this article.
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 Parliamentary Vote

The vote to approve the motions of articles of impeachment will be held on April 4, 2020. The vote of the impeachment will be on April 10, 2020.

#### Impeachment

**Impeachment Votes**
(Affiliation with the Catholic Church while in public office)
 Communist Party
 Social Democrats
 Total Votes
 Adopted ✔, MacCarthy is Impeached ✔

MacCarthy was impeached by the first article of impeachment (Article I), 816 communists and 44 social democrats voting to impeach MacCarthy with this article in a bipartisan vote to impeach MacCarthy at 860 votes total for impeaching MacCarthy to just 37 social democrats and 0 communists against impeachment, and on Article 2, another bipartisan vote for impeaching MacCarthy with the article accusing MacCarthy of perjury at 853 votes total for impeaching MacCarthy with the perjury article, 816 communists for, 37 social democrats for, and 31 social democrats against but 0 communists against impeaching MacCarthy with article 2.

The capitalists were embarrassed by MacCarthy's impeachment because of how bipartisan the pro-impeachment vote was. The only capitalist party in the capitalist minority caucus in the Chawopolis Palace, the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, having being bitterly split between pro-impeachment and anti-impeachment has made the capitalist opposition look ideologically fractured while the communists were appearing ideologically unified.

#### Aftermath

The Communists in the Parliament sent the articles to the Senate for impeachment trial proceedings. The Senate impeachment trial began on April 10, 2020.

### Resignation

Following his impeachment and the election of his new successor, Jezebel Isela Boleslaus, MacCarthy resigned from the premiership to avoid a Senate impeachment trial on April 20, 2020.

### Proposal to reopen the Impeachment Trial

The Impeachment trial was mooted due to MacCarthy's resignation, but following the second impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump despite he is already set to depart from office on January 20, 2021, an Impeachment trial will still go on into the first days of Trump's post-presidency, which is already contaminated with legal and financial troubles, with his sedition against the United States Capitol to force Congress to overturn his loss to Biden adding to his legal headaches.

That idea of convicting a former President Trump begins to infect the impeachment of MacCarthy. Earlier, MacCarthy resigned from the prime ministership to avoid being convicted by the Senate, and it works, his resignation saved him, the Senate cancels the trial because there is no need to convict an impeached politician who has already left office, in fact, it didn't made sense back then. Trump's second impeachment proved that to be wrong, because while Trump will already be out of office, the purpose of that impeachment and conviction of a President already out of office is a subsequent vote following conviction to rather strip Trump of his eligibility to run for public office again, and unlike the fact that it takes 67 out of all 100 U.S. Senators to be on board with convicting a President, disqualifying an impeached and convicted President from running for office again takes a simple majority, and if Trump does get convicted, then the Democratic Party is in luck because they have a simple majority all thanks to two U.S. Senate runoff elections in the State of Georgia that could've been winnable for Republicans, so the Democrats don't really need Republicans in that vote unless Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is not on board.

That idea made Chawosaurian Senators realize that the process of disqualifying an impeached and convicted politician does exist in Chawosauria's impeachment process, but it's more difficult than the American system, in order to disqualify an impeached and convicted politician from public office, both the Parliament and the Senate must vote together by a supermajority (500 in the Parliament and 60 in the Senate), but the Communist Party already enjoys supermajorities in both the Parliament and the Senate, so that can basically happen to MacCarthy.

Parliamentary communists send a petition to Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus to reopen the MacCarthy Impeachment Trial, and she and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker both had private meetings about the possibility at doing so.

On February 13, 2021, former President Trump was acquitted by the U.S. Senate because of being 10 votes short of a supermajority to convict but Trump suffered a sizable majority of Senators (57-43) voting to convict him, it was so bad that 7 Republicans voted to convict him. In 2019 in Trump's first impeachment acquittal, he only suffered one defection (Mitt Romney of Utah), in 1998, President Clinton suffered no defections, and in 1868, President Andrew Johnson suffered no defections either despite the Republicans having a supermajority in the Senate that should've been enough convict him, 10 Republicans refused to convict the Democrat Andrew Johnson, resulting in President Johnson one vote away from being convicted, saving him from conviction.

The debate among the Imperial Senate to open up the trial against MacCarthy intensifies, and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker had private talks with Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus about using her authority to open up a trial against MacCarthy.

## Response

The Chawosaurian public supported impeachment and removal due to fear of religion in politics. The Social Democrats struggled to find a stance on impeachment, so party members were allowed to vote with their conscience, which weakens the Prime Minister. The Social Democrats were split but they supported the impeachment of their own Prime Minister by a margin of 44-37 out of all 84 members of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Caucus. The 37 Social Democrats who voted against impeaching MacCarthy became unpopular among their constituents, and 36 out of 37 of them decided not to run for reelection because of it, just 1 decided to run for reelection anyway and is badly trailing in the pre-election polls behind a Communist challenger.

The Communist Party's supermajority parliamentary caucus unanimously supported impeachment on both articles, all 816 of them.

## Impact

MacCarthy's impeachment embarrassed the capitalists because they're the ones who sent MacCarthy to the premiership, only for MacCarthy to be impeached and potentially removed from office. The Capitalists' installation of MacCarthy's premiership is now seen as "poorly judged" and this will have a negative impact on the capitalist opposition in the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The capitalists' only party in their minority caucus, the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, was bitterly split between pro-impeachment and anti-impeachment social democrats, but a slim majority of social democrats (44) sided with the solidly pro-impeachment Communists in favor of impeaching MacCarthy with Article 1 (religious affiliation with the roman catholic church while in office), this result was so embarrassing for capitalists, and then a plurality of social democrats (37) aided the Communists' 816 votes for Article 2 (perjury: lying about his own religion while under investigation).

The capitalists were not so pleased with the bipartisan pro-impeachment vote and were embarrassed by the hyper-partisan anti-impeachment vote. All members of Parliament who voted against MacCarthy's impeachment were all social democrats, no communist joined them, while on the pro-impeachment side, a bipartisan coalition of 816 communists without suffering any defections and a small social democratic minority in that bipartisan coalition against MacCarthy, MacCarthy suffered from 37 defections from his own party, a badly embarrassing situation for him.

MacCarthy suffered the worst defections than Trump in 2019 and Rousseff in 2016. In 2021, Trump was impeached again by a bipartisan vote of 222 Democrats unanimously and 10-197 Republicans over a riot at the U.S. Capitol by his own supporters who were summoned by Trump himself to march over to the capitol to pressure Congress to throw out the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in which Trump was defeated by challenger Joe Biden, that attempt failed beautifully due to the marchers becoming violent with the capitol, Congress reconvened and certified Biden as President-elect anyway, echoing how big of a colossal failure the attempt by Trump supporters to force Congress to strip Biden of his election victory truly was.

In a live interview with Journalist Edwin Staten Michaels in front of a socially distanced audience of journalists, MacCarthy was asked to respond to Trump's second impeachment which was carried by bipartisan support, MacCarthy made fun of Trump by mockingly said: *"Well shit! That makes two of us!"* and the audience laughed with him at Trump. Chawosaurian Trump supporters were not happy with MacCarthy's response, so they protested against MacCarthy, only tobe arrested and sentenced to life in prison for violating Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's SL Order No. I-2020 and SL Order No. II-2020. The government was merciful enough to not invoke SL Order No. III-2020 on these Trump supporters as a penalty for violating these two previous SL Orders, one Chawosaurian Trump supporter begged Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker for a pardon, but the Communist regime warned that Trump supporter that he'd be shot if he ever asked for a pardon again.

## Public Opinion

This impeachment inquiry is widely popular among Chawosaurians.

MacCarthy originally had no support from the Chawosaurian public. Little opposition to the impeachment proceedings at the time were at a range of below and over the 10s. However, public support for impeachment and removal quickly demolished thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. However, it has no impact on Jezebel Boleslaus' prime ministerial nominating proceedings because public support for nominating Boleslaus is unaffected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Chawosaurians do not believe it is safe to impeach and remove a Prime Minister during a global pandemic while at the same time, Chawosaurians do not believe in canceling the impeachment inquiry or other government not related to the pandemic because of a pandemic.