Virtually no member of the middle class, which includes just about all expatriate workers, is without at least one all-night guard.
The measures have been taken solely against the Protestant churches, which cater for refugees from Sudan and Iraq and expatriate workers, as well as for Syrians.
This was only the second time that Emirati citizens, whose Numbers are dwarfed by expatriate workers, have voted in the country's 40-year history.
