A Knesset member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party met on Saturday with Ra’am Chief Mansour Abbas, whose Islamic side has emerged as the king’s ruler after a fourth inconclusive election in two years.
Netanyahu again refused to rely on Ra’am to form a government in the run-up to the March 23 elections, shouting the party against Zionist. However, some Likud lawyers have hosted an affiliation with Ra’am after this week’s elections, in which the prime minister and his religious allies again fell short of majority.
After meeting with Abbas in his hometown of Maghar, lawyer Likud Ayoub Kara called for a distinction to be made between Ra’am and the Coalition, an alliance of majority Arab truths with which the Islamic party had broken before the elections.
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“Friends on the Right: There is a difference between the Coalition [List] who exterminated the Arab public from Israel and the pragmatic new Ra’am who do not refuse to be in Israel and who want to be a participant in national decisions, ”Kara tweeted.
Kara told Army Radio that he had received requests from inside Likud to visit Abbas, but did not specify from whom.
“My role as MK in Likud is to look out for the interests of my party,” he said.
Kara visited Abbas, saying, “What Netanyahu did when he turned to the Arab community, instead of votes going to [the Joint List], they went to Mansour [Abbas] and we are happy about that, ”according to Channel 12.
Kara, from the Druze community of Israel, was minister of communications from 2017-2019. He is 41st on Likud’s slate, meaning he will not enter the Knesset after Tuesday’s election, in which Likud won 30 seats.
תודה מנסור על הפגישה החמה. חבריי בימין: שיש הבדל מהותי בין המשותפת שניתקה את הציבור הערבי מישראל לבין רע”ם החדשה הפרגמטית שלא שוללת את קיומה של ישראל ורוצהי וטידום הצי הצי הערבי הערבי הערבי הערבי הערבי הערבידום pic.twitter.com/7b0Qpy5cn6
– איוב קרא (@ayoobkara) March 27, 2021
Ra’am’s support could make a majority donation to the Netikahu bloc under Likud’s leadership if right-wing Yamina supports him. However, the likelihood of the Islamic party doing so seems likely to wane later this week after both Ra’am and members of the far-fetched Religious Zionism party were slammed. coming together.
A report on Wednesday said Netanyahu has not terminated “parliamentary cooperation” with Ra’am, fearing he could repeal legislation that barred the formation of a government over his graft charges lawsuit.
Also on Saturday, general secretary Balad resigned Saturday, announcing that the Joint List lost seats in the elections. Balad, a Palestinian nationalist party, is one of three groups that make up the list together, along with communist Hadash and Ta’al by MK Ahmad Tibi.
“The results of the most recent elections need to reconsider the parts of the Joint List. The separation in our people will take years to set up, if it ever existed. Mustafa Taha was summoned by Army Radio.
The results of the last election gave the Joint List six seats and four to Ra’am. When Ra’am ran into the combined list in March last year, the combined slate got 15 seats.
According to a report on Thursday, Netanyahu has formed a team to detect errors and potential problems with votes for the joint list, trying to cast around 2,600 votes to win a seat for Likud at the expense of the Arab federation and the Knesset balance shifted slightly in his case in favor.
Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh will speak at the party headquarters, in the city of Shfar’am, on election night, March 23, 2021 (David Cohen / Flash90
The Joint List currently has a buffer of 2,521 votes, below which it loses its 6th seat. Under Israel’s complex city rotation system, Likud, currently closest to an additional seat by number of votes, would benefit from the loss of the Joint List.
This will move Netanyahu’s block of potential supporters from 59 to 60 of Knesset’s total 120. There is still a majority, but at least not a minority.
But to do so, Likud had to disregard 2,521 votes cast by the Arab public, a situation that was unlikely, and one that is sure to receive harsh criticism for the effort to attract minority members. Disqualify Arab Israel.
The Israel Hayom report said the team will focus on finding differences at polling stations with high turnout for the joint list in Arab cities such as Umm al-Fahm, Taybeh, Jaffa and Kfar Manda.
Likud has previously pleaded against voter fraud among Israeli Arab voters, fishing the Arab community and the center-left, but did not provide strong proof of any major fraud.
Prior to the most recent election, Netanyahu abandoned that astronomy and tried to accept an Arab population, in an attempt to gain support from the community that had moderate results.
With all votes counted Thursday night, results showed that Netanyahu had failed, for the fourth time in a row, to win a clear parliamentary majority. The decisions once again left both its main opponent and its political opponents without a clear path to the formation of a coalition government, and called for a permanent and fifth breakdown. a possible choice.
