Everything about Self-coup totally explained
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self-coup or autocoup is a form of
coup d'état that occurs when a country's leader dissolves or renders powerless the national
legislature and assumes extraordinary powers not granted under normal circumstances. Other measures taken may include annulling the nation's
constitution and suspending civil courts. In most cases the
head of state is granted
dictatorial powers.
One of the best modern examples of the self-coup is elected
Peruvian
President Alberto Fujimori's takeover of the government on
April 5,
1992, ostensibly to exercise absolute authority in annihilating Maoist
Shining Path insurgents, though political opponents and journalists were arrested by the military. A historical example was the coup d'état of
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who granted himself emergency powers and later conducted a referendum in which he became Napoleon III.
Germany offers another example, in
Adolf Hitler's infamous
Enabling Act,
1933, and the process of
Gleichschaltung, consolidating the power of the
Nazi party (
NSDAP).
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