政府官员犯罪或者严重失职如何处理?弹劾问责是一个重要对策。肇始于英国的西方弹劾制度以“分权与制衡”和“议会至上”理论学说为根据,由国家议会对涉事政府官员进行控告和制裁,是资产阶级制度下确保政治自由,杜绝权力滥用的重要监督手段。而在中国古代,弹劾同样是对违法失职官员进行揭发并追究其法律责任的监察制度,只是性质与西方有所不同。受意识形态和政治体制的影响,现行中国的政治和法律制度中没有“弹劾”这一具体说法,但时下正逐步兴起的“行 Government officials how to deal with crimes or serious dereliction of duty? Impeachment is an important countermeasure. The Western impeachment system started in the United Kingdom based on the theories of ”decentralization and checks and balances“ and ”parliamentary supremacy.“ The accusation and sanctions imposed on the government officials involved by the national parliament are the measures to ensure political freedom under the bourgeois system, Eliminate abuse of power is an important monitoring tool. In ancient China, however, impeachment was also a monitoring system for exposing and investigating officials who violated the law and that they were held responsible for their legal responsibilities, except that nature was different from that in the West. Influenced by the ideology and the political system, there is no concrete statement of ”impeachment“ in the current Chinese political and legal system, but the ”