pronunciamento

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

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

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

Said Allied Generalissimo Gamelin in his last pronunciamento before being relieved: "The British Air Force, like the French, is fighting to the last man."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Bloomer replied to Mr. Floyd through the same paper, meeting and refuting every objection, thus in a measure antidoting the poisonous influence of the senator's pronunciamento.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady