Gorbachev described the Minsk declaration as an "illegal and dangerous" constitutional coup.

Gorbachev described this as a constitutional coup, but it soon became clear that the development could not be halted.

Many of the minister have since distanced themselves from the attempted constitutional coup.

This was not a political showdown - it was an attempted constitutional coup.

Some suspect the group of plotting a constitutional coup.

"You could make quite a strong argument that rigging and manipulating elections is a kind of constitutional coup."

"It's going to be an attempt to carry out a constitutional coup, to express a vote of nonconfidence in the President and to oust him."

It was a constitutional coup, the final act of a giant fraud.

Despite the constitutional coup, passed by force and forgery, the Egyptian state terrorism will not intimidate us.

Some sources saw the delay in elections as a constitutional coup, and didn't expect elections to take place anytime soon.