Gov. Benigno Fitial of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Impeached in 16-4 vote

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. very good article

Later on Fitial joined the Republican Party and as Governor appointed Juan Babauta the Chairman of the GOP as well as the CEO of the public hospital. Fitial has pretty much run things like a third world despot. It looked for the longest time that there was no hope of getting rid of him before the 2014 elections. But the anti-Fitial alliance won 16 out of 20 seats in the lower house in the last election. His arch rival U.S. Congressman Gregorio Killili Camacho Sablan (runs as independent but caucuses with the Democrats) defeated his Fitial personally appointed Republican candidate by a margin of close to 81% of the vote to 19% of the vote. At the same time Fitial's former Attorney General, Edward Buckingham known for carrying out Fitial's wishes in the most ethically questionable manners is now a fugitive from justice with a warrant out for his arrest. All this has been read as a mandate to impeach.