On September 21, 2025, Guineans will vote in a constitutional referendum that the junta presents as a decisive step toward restoring constitutional order. The referendum comes four years after the September 5, 2021, coup that ousted former President Alpha Condé, ending his controversial third-term bid but also ushering in a military transition led by Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya
The draft constitution, prepared by the National Council for the Transition (CNT) and recently submitted to Transitional President Doumbouya, introduces several innovations: a seven-year presidential term with a two-term limit, a bicameral parliament (introduction of a senate), authorization of independent candidacies in national elections (previously permitted only at the local level), and the establishment of a Special Court of Justice to try high-ranking officials for crimes committed in office.
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