The new head of state promised that all individual and collective liberties, except that of political activity, would be guaranteed while the military government instituted its program for national recovery. Zerbo dissolved the National Assembly, suspended the constitution, and established a Milltery Committee of Recovery for National Progress. However, in November 1980, after more than six months of repeated, disruptive confrontations with Upper Volta's powerful trade unions, General Lamizana was removed from office in a bloodless coup led by then Commander of the Armed Forces in Ouagadougou, Colonel Saye Zerbo. In the 1978 general election General Lamizana won a narrow victory to assume the presidency. A 57-member national assembly, headed by a presidentially appointed prime minister, made up the legislative branch. The executive branch consisted of the president who also served as commander in chief of the armed forces, and the Council of Ministers, or Cabinet. In July of 1978, Upper Volta Inaugurated the Third Republic and a popularly elected government composed of an executive, legislative, and judicial branch was established. Between 19 Upper Volta was directed by a military regime headed by General Sangoule Lamizana.
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