If a government has a coup/collapses, do the new coup leaders automatically represent the government in the UN?

Question

If a government has a coup/collapses, do the new coup leaders automatically represent the government in the UN?

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Answer 1

No.

While your new government becomes the de facto government of your state with the ability and legitimacy to administer the country, that only applies domestically – everyone else can choose to recognize you as legitimate or not, which affects your ability to be invited to the UN.

This means that your new government can get recognized almost immediately (as is the case for the Aquino Administration in the Philippines in 1986) or it could get recognized never (as is the case for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which eventually applied as a new nation under the name Serbia and Montenegro, rescinding their original claim).

As a rule of thumb, the UN/countries recognize the former government until it recognizes the new government.