List of political leaders who suspended the constitution
Suspended in full

List of political leaders who suspended the constitution

Section Title: Suspended in full
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Name	Country	Year	Reason

Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey	New Zealand	1848	The constitution put in place by the Colonial Office in London put all power in the hands of the small settler population.

Miguel Primo de Rivera	Spain	1923

Alexander I of Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	1929-1931	An assassination in the National Assembly was used as a pretext for absolutism and the dissolution of the Assembly.

Francisco Franco	Francoist Spain	1939–1975	Suspended the Constitution of 1931 after nationalists victory in Spanish Civil War

Ion Antonescu	Romania	1940–1944

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo	China Taiwan	1948-1991	Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion

Joseph Arthur Ankrah	Ghana	1966

Jean-Bédel Bokassa	Central African Republic	1966	Bokassa later created a monarchy and declared himself Emperor of Central Africa.

Milton Obote	Uganda	1966

Leabua Jonathan	Lesotho	1970

Park Chung Hee	South Korea	1971

Ferdinand Marcos	Philippines	1972	Marcos claimed that a supposed Communist takeover of the government compelled him to suspend the 1935 Constitution and impose Martial Law.

Augusto Pinochet	Chile	1973

Sobhuza II	Swaziland	1973

Juan María Bordaberry	Uruguay	1973

Seyni Kountché	Niger	1974

Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq	Pakistan	1977

France-Albert René	Seychelles	1977

Mustafa Ould Salek	Mauritania	1978

Maurice Bishop	Grenada	1979–1983	The Constitution was suspended after the bloodless ouster of former Prime Minister Eric Gairy, yet some rights protections were simultaneously enacted under The People's Laws 1979.

Saye Zerbo	Upper Volta	1980

Jerry Rawlings	Ghana	1981

Hossain Mohammad Ershad	Bangladesh	1982

Efraín Ríos Montt	Guatemala	1982

Lansana Conté	Guinea	1984

Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab	Sudan	1985

Sitiveni Rabuka	Fiji	1987

Pierre Buyoya	Burundi	1987

Saw Maung	Burma	1988

Henri Namphy	Haiti	1988

Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir	Sudan	1989

Idriss Déby	Chad	1990

Amadou Toumani Touré	Mali	1991

Jorge Serrano Elías	Guatemala	1993

Yahya Jammeh	Gambia	1994

Johnny Paul Koroma	Sierra Leone	1997

Denis Sassou-Nguesso	Republic of the Congo	1997–2002	According to the United States State Department: "[T]he Sassou regime [...] announced that a constitutional convention would finalize a draft Constitution.

Pervez Musharraf	Pakistan	1999–2007

Frank Bainimarama	Fiji	2000

Pedro Carmona	Venezuela	2002	See Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002

Gyanendra	Nepal	2005

Sonthi Boonyaratglin	Thailand	2006

Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (headed by Mohamed Hussein Tantawi)	Egypt	2011	During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011

Transitional Military Council (headed by Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf)	Sudan	2019	During the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état

Sentence(s)

Supreme Council of the Armed Forces suspend the Constitution of Egypt.

final_sentence: Supreme Council of the Armed Forces suspend the Constitution of Egypt.