soft coup

English

Noun

soft coup (plural soft coups)

The legal removal of a national leader, amounting to a coup, but carried out without military force.

Translations

less brutal form of overthrow of a government

Chinese:
Mandarin: 軟性政變／软性政变 (ruǎnxìng zhèngbiàn)

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