An interesting aspect of the Shura Elections is that candidates must be from a family that resided in Qatar prior to 1930. Article 80 of the #Qatar constitution as far as I can tell does not provide this requirement, simply that they be Qatari nationals. 1930 is mentioned in 
the nationality law of 2005. 1930 is a date mentioned in the nationality law as the key date for which those residents and descendants of those residents have nationality. There are many other roads to obtaining Qatari nationality however, but the almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?o…
law on candidates for the Shura council does make a distinction between those with pre-1930 nationality and post 1930 nationality. As far as I know there is no formal distinction between citizen and national. Also I am not sure if there are numbers out there defining the
total number of potentially eligible and illegible candidates who are Qatari nationals.
This is not a thread about constitutionality, the voting laws are perfectly constitutional in that provisions always exist, e.g. article 41 specifically discusses how qatari nationality is defined by law as noted in my tweet about the nationality law of 2005. It's rather a
discussion about nationality, citizenship, heritage and belonging. Essentially there will be a number of hierarchies of involvement, from Qatari nationals who can run as candidates, Qatari nationals who can vote and Qatari nationals who cannot vote
This article by @GUQatar 's Zahra Babar provides good background and analysis of citizenship and nationality in Qatar jstor.org/stable/43698593
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