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Israel’s Ra’am Party splits from Joint Arab List

Ahead of the March 23 elections, the Joint List will comprise the Balad, Ta’al and Hadash parties with polls predicting that Ra’am won’t make it into the Knesset if it runs independently.

Feb. 3, 2021
Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am-Balad Party holds a press conference after a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Mansour Abbas of the Ra’am-Balad Party holds a press conference after a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
( Feb. 3, 2021 / Israel Hayom )

Knesset member Mansour Abbas announced on Wednesday that his Ra’am party will split from the Joint Arab List ahead of the country’s March 23 elections, Channel 12 News reported.

The Joint Arab List will now comprise the Balad, Ta’al and Hadash parties.

Mansour had a falling out with other Joint List members following his rapprochement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Recent polls, however, project that an independent Knesset run will see Ra’am fail to cross the four-seat electoral threshold.

This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.

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