So what has the one-time usurper king of late night TV been up to lately?
The party's hard core argues that they should treat him as an illegitimate usurper.
In 1984, another military usurper, General Zia ul Haq, resorted to a referendum to install himself as president.
One of the most controversial kings in British history, Richard III was demonised by Shakespeare as a murderous usurper with a hunchback.
The man is a usurper, cheated into office and without any democratic legitimacy.
When Wessex was crowned King of England in January 1066, William accused him of being a usurper and assembled an invasion force.
Especially as a former Attorney General in Ohio, he ought to resign for having agreed to play along as a constitutional usurper.
In particular, he likes to recall Dutugemunu, a famous warrior-king of the second century BC, who defeated Elara, a Tamil usurper from India.
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The PP found it hard to accept its 2004 defeat and not to see him as an accidental prime minister or even a usurper.
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India, a huge and influential neighbour, pulled out of a regional summit rather than see its prime minister shake hands with the royal usurper.
It is a time-waster, they say, a drain on family incomes, a usurper of land and water better used for cash and export crops like coffee, and possibly a dangerous narcotic too.
The typical Afghan functionary would decorate his office with a bouquet of fake silk flowers, but Audin, the gaudy usurper, felt compelled to jam a dozen of them in every nook and cranny.
After the failure of the 2000 Camp David talks, Mr Sharon sought to stir a public groundswell against the then Prime Minister Ehud Barak, depicting him as a usurper ready to trade Jerusalem for a peace agreement.
The dead president's aides told Robert Kennedy tales, mostly imaginary, of how badly Johnson had behaved in the immediate aftermath and the new president came to feel that Robert and millions of Americans regarded him as a crude usurper.
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