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Knesset panel approves Joint List’s breakup after talks with Ra’am faction fail
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 29, 2021 12:25pm |
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| Author | Toi Staff and Aaron Boxerman |
| News Date | Thursday, January 28, 2021 09:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Knesset panel on Thursday approved the breakup of the predominantly Arab Joint List party, whose four factions are now set to run in the March elections as three separate parties, increasing the odds that at least one of them will fail to pass the electoral threshold.
The split approved by the Knesset House Committee was labeled a “technical” division. Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am had applied to split off before Wednesday night’s announcement that the Joint List was dissolving.
The Hadash and Balad factions will continue under the name the Joint List, while Ra’am and Ahmad Tibi’s Ta’al will run as separate parties. The final lineup, however, is yet to be determined.
With the alliance falling apart, the chances of one or more factions falling below the election threshold of 3.25 percent of the votes — and wasting tens of thousands of Arab votes — rise considerably. |
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