In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.

Their government collapsed in late 1992, and was succeeded by a technocratic team, put forward by the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ), which served until 1994, when the president dissolved the government and appointed a provisional one to serve until the pre-term elections, appointed for December in the same year.

After 3 months of provisional government, Déby ’ s Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) approved a national charter on February 28, 1991, with Déby as president.

When he did not restore democratic rule and occasionally engaged in open repression, however, he was overthrown by the military in 1957 with the backing of both political parties, and a provisional government was installed.

The Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( EPLF ), an ally in the fight against the Mengistu regime, assumed control of Eritrea and established a provisional government.

At that point, Madero would declare himself provisional President of Mexico, and called for a general refusal to acknowledge the central government, restitution of land to villages and Indian communities, and freedom for political prisoners.

From November 1980 to May 1984, power was held by a provisional government responsible to a Revolutionary Council headed by President João Bernardo Vieira.

From 1986 to early 1988 Haiti was ruled by a provisional military government under General Namphy.

The opposition parties, regrouped in the Democratic Convergence ( Convergence Démocratique, CD ), demanded that the elections be annulled, and that Préval stand down and be replaced by a provisional government.

The revolutionaries, headed by former president Manuel Bonilla, and the government agreed to a cease-fire and the installation of a provisional president who would be selected by the United States mediator, Thomas Dawson.

El-Keib formed a provisional government, filling it with independent or CNT politicians, including women.

A provisional government the communists had formed at Berat in October administered Albania with Enver Hoxha as prime minister.

Shortly thereafter, Yugoslavia became the first country to recognize Albania's provisional government.

" The inclusion of the designation of borders in the text was dropped after the provisional government of Israel, the Minhelet HaAm, voted 5 – 4 against it.

It recommended the establishment of a provisional government for the Arab State and the Jewish State, which would be subject to certain constitutional requirements and guarantees.

" One month after Yalta, the Soviet NKVD arrested 16 Polish leaders wishing to participate in provisional government negotiations, for alleged " crimes " and " diversions ", which drew protest from the West.

In Jajce, a 67-member " presidency " was elected and established a nine-member National Committee of Liberation ( five communist members ) as a de facto provisional government.

On 7 March 1945, the provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia ( Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavija, DFY ) was assembled in Belgrade by Josip Broz Tito, while the provisional name allowed for either a republic or monarchy.

This government was headed by Tito as provisional Yugoslav Prime Minister and included representatives from the royalist government-in-exile, among others Ivan Šubašić.

Vladimir Lenin and his ' German spies ', he announced, should be hanged, the Soviets stamped out, military discipline restored and the provisional government ' restructured '.

A period of provisional government ended with the adoption of a constitution in 1959 and full independence on 26 June 1960.

Gandhi suggested an agreement which required the Congress and Muslim League to cooperate and attain independence under a provisional government, thereafter, the question of partition could be resolved by a plebiscite in the districts with a Muslim majority.

* 1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China ; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Prominent issues in Hellenic foreign policy include the claims in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean by Turkey, the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, the dispute over the name of the Republic of Macedonia ( recognized under the provisional denomination of " former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia "), and relations with the United States and Russia.

The provisional reference the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ( FYROM ) is still currently used in relations involving states which do not recognise the constitutional name, Republic of Macedonia.

On 13 September 1995 the two countries signed the Interim Accord, whereby Greece recognized the Republic of Macedonia under its provisional reference.

In the controversial selection for a " provisional capital " of the Federal Republic of Germany Adenauer championed Bonn over Frankfurt am Main.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

The Wuchang Uprising succeeded on October 10, 1911, which led to the creation of the new central government, the Republic of China, in Nanjing with Sun Yat-sen as its provisional head.

A poster that commemorates the permanent President of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai and the provisional President of the Republic

The first national government of the Chinese Republic was established on 1 January 1912, in Nanjing, with Sun Yat-sen as the provisional president.

** In the Dominican Republic, officers and civilians loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a provisional government.

In 1949, the interim parliament (" Parlamentarischer Rat ") eliminated Kassel in the first round as a city to become the provisional capital of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bonn won ).

After losing Mainland China to the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War, the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) resettled the ROC government to Taiwan and declared Taipei the provisional capital of the Republic of China in December 1949.

When the Republic of China was founded in 1912, Sun Yat-sen was elected as the first " provisional president " ( 臨時大總統 ) by the provisional Senate, ending thousands of years of imperial rule in China.

It became the provisional government of South Vietnam following the military defeat of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam on April 30, 1975.

" His view was supported by Mao Zedong and on 27 September 1949, the song became the provisional national anthem, just days before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The provisional government would be responsible for the creation of the Federal Republic, and it was in effect from April 1, 1823 to October 10, 1824.

Burnet is named for David Gouverneur Burnet, the first ( provisional ) president of the Republic of Texas.

* Henry Smith ( 1788 – 1851 ) was known as the first provisional governor of the Republic of Texas.

Both the city and the county were named for David Gouverneur Burnet, the first ( provisional ) president of the Republic of Texas.

One revolutionary general who remained in the Philippines, Francisco Macabulos, established a Central Executive Committee to serve as a provisional revolutionary government " until a general government of the Republic in these islands shall again be established.