While the eyes of the world are focused on the fateful elections in the USA, citizens of Qatar will also attend the polling stations today to vote on a referendum featuring a set of constitutional reforms, the most prominent of which is the cancellation of the country’s elections, purported by the Emir himself.

Qatar has opened a snap poll to decide whether to end its limited voting for legislative seats. The measure is likely to pass and end its short-lived experiment in electing members of the country’s advisory Shura Council.

Qataris went to the polls on Tuesday in a referendum on ending a brief and limited experiment with legislative elections in the wealthy monarchy.