The behavior of the political elite is one of the decisive factors in the success of coup attempts. The fragmentation of political leadership leads to institutional disintegration and opens up a space of legitimacy for the coup plotters. On 15 July, the opposite occurred. The fact that elected officials did not step down, that a significant portion of state institutions remained committed to the constitutional order, and that various political actors adopted an anti-coup stance prevented a legitimacy vacuum from forming.
The institutionalization of democracy depends on actors accepting the rules of the democratic game as the
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