pronunciamento

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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats.

From Time Magazine Archive

El Morocco banned Bogart "for life" in a pronunciamento delivered in tones as sepulchral as if he were being sentenced to the electric chair.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a pronunciamento to the whole country, Chang Tsao-Tsen declared that peaceful efforts at reunification had failed and practically admitted that he was powerless against the opposition of the war lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

Half a century elapsed; the State of Wisconsin, rock-ribbed Republican, nullified the fugitive slave law and in its pronunciamento of nullification quoted the very words which Jefferson used in 1798.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted