Vice President of Maldives has been impeached for alleged assassination plot of the countryPresident.

The Maldives Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to impeach the country's vice president, who will be charged with terrorism for plotting to kill the president, a minister said.

Ahmed Adeeb is the second vice president to be impeached in three months. He has been arrested for allegely trying to kill the president Yameen Abdul Gayoom in an explosion on his speedboat on Sept. 28. Adeeb has denied involvement in the blast.

The impeachment motion received 61 votes in favor and none opposed in the 85-member Parliament. The main opposition group, the Maldivian Democratic Party, abstained.

"We have passed the impeachment with an overwhelming majority. We thought 57 votes would do the job but we got 61," Home Minister Umar Naseer told The Associated Press. "Now the vice president is out of office, and we will charge him under the recent terrorism law."

The president, who was not hurt in the blast, has declared a state of emergency, saying the explosion and subsequent discovery of arms posed a threat to national security.