The United States government also called on authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations while asking opposition to refrain from violence.

During the protests, several government offices, schools and police stations were attacked with the aim of destroying voting materials.

[7][8] The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), an umbrella opposition group, called for a boycott of the referendum and rejected its results.

On the day of the referendum, state controlled Guinea Broadband Guinéenne de Large Bande announced that it expected that internet and telephony services to be disturbed due to a planned maintenance work on undersea cables.

[12] Preliminary results showed that the new constitution received almost 90% of votes in favor amid a full boycott by opposition parties.

[14] Mohamed Ibn Chambas, United Nations special representative to West Africa, released a statement highlighting that the following developments were with great concern.