[2] Due to the 2021 Malian coup d'état it was indefinitely postponed, with plans for it to be held by 2024.

[5] On 5 May 2023 the ruling junta announced in a decree that it would be held on 18 June.

[8] Proposed amendements to the constitution included the following: The referendum was supported by the Union for the Republic and Democracy and the Democratic Alliance for Peace, while part of the opposition (including the Convergence for the Development of Mali) opposed it, noting that under the prior constitution a vote in the legislature would be needed to approve it first.

Additionally, the composition of the electoral authority was called into question, with junta leader Assimi Goïta having appointed ten of its fifteen members instead of the three provided for by law.

Retaining the mention of the country being a secular state was opposed by the Malian League of Imams and Scholars for Islamic Solidarity in Mali.