2024 Qatari constitutional referendum
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5 November 2024
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A referendum took place in Qatar on 5 November 2024 regarding the new revisions to the 2004 constitution. Some of the changes included strengthening the role of the emir and abolition of the elections to the Consultative Assembly, with its members being appointed instead. The referendum results were to be legally binding.[1][2][3]
The first direct election for two-thirds of the Consultative Assembly took place in 2021. On 15 October 2024, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani announced plans for a referendum on whether to abolish direct elections to the Consultative Assembly and revert to an appointive system, saying that the election had affected relations within families and tribes and that it had assumed "an identity-based character that we are not equipped to handle, with potential complications over time that we would rather avoid".[4]
