coup d'etat

On Sunday, the opposition group made up of Gbagbo and Thiam's parties denounced the election as a "civilian coup d'etat," saying they would not recognise Ouattara as a validly elected leader.

On Wednesday, Gbagbo condemned the poll as a "civilian coup d'etat" and "electoral robbery".

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro -- whose last two reelection victories have been widely disputed -- has accused Washington of plotting "regime change," while Colombia's Gustavo Petro has suggested the idea of "a coup d'etat against me."

That incarceration was part of a de Moraes effort to squeeze members of the former president’s inner circle to convict him and his lieutenants of plotting a coup d’état against his successor, President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva.

Madagascar's constitutional court has named Col Randrianirina as the country's new leader, even though a statement from the president's office said he was still in charge and denounced what it described as an "attempted coup d'etat".