A soft coup, sometimes called a silent coup, is an illegal overthrow of a government carried out without the use of military force. Unlike a classical coup d'etat, it relies on covert political, legal, institutional or economic pressure rather than an armed seizure of power to force a change in leadership. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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