You are splitting hairs (though beyond the technical I doubt that the essential point was misunderstood - even by you, but to please the language purists maybe I should have said "never-to-be-franchised" majority.
And, by the why, only a few (citizen or otherwise) held, or holds anything approaching a "franchise" even now.
Friend I don't have any hairs left to split, and no, "even I", didn't misunderstand the "essential point" you made. Although it's not the point you think you made.
You seem to think the government of the U.A.E. has no legitimacy because it isn't a western style democracy. Would letting a mob of transient contract workers decide the fate of the U.A.E. be an improvement?
Perhaps in the American neighborhoods where foreign nationals are a majority they should be allowed to vote.
Was the democracy of Athens lessened because only full citizens held the franchise and barbarians, slaves, women and resident Greek aliens didn't?
I'm not splitting hairs friend, I'm insisting on the necessary precision of terms that makes rational informed debate possible. Sorry if the difference between apples and oranges discombobulates you.