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From its perspective, Qatar saw the one-time 2021 vote likely as increasing tensions between tribes
and families in the country just months after a diplomatic crisis between Doha and four Arab nations
ended.

“We are all one family in Qatar,” Sheikh Tamim said, according to a transcript published by the state-
run Qatar News Agency. “The contest between candidates for membership in the Shura Council
took place within families and tribes, and there are different views regarding the repercussions of
such competition on our norms, traditions, as well as the conventional social institutions and their
cohesion.”

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The emir added: “The contest assumes an identity-based character that we are not equipped to
handle, with potential complications over time that we would rather avoid.”

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