[1] The latest constitution was approved by referendum on 19 April 2010 and formally adopted on 7 May.
[8] A 15-person commission wrote a draft constitution in 10 days, which was approved by the new national assembly on 10 November 1958 after a mere two hours of debate.
[8] However, during the dictatorial reign of the first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, it was routinely ignored or altered.
[10] Critics accused then-President Lansana Conté of seeking to remain in power longer.
[10] When Conté died in 2008, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara seized power in a coup d'état, but was shot in the head in December 2010.