The following is a guest post by George Sadek, a senior legal research analyst at the Law Library of Congress. George has contributed a number of posts to this blog, including posts on Egypt’s new antiterrorism law, the legal processes available to imprisoned journalists in Egypt, the trial of Seif al Islam al Gaddafi, and constitutional developments in Egypt. This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series.
In February 2011, I wrote a blog post about the second municipal elections to be held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Now, nearly five years later, I am writing about the third municipal elections