Hadash, Ta'al, and Balad Agree to Joint List Without Ra'am for Upcoming Israeli Elections

Representatives from the Hadash, Ta'al, and Balad parties have reached an agreement to run together on a joint list for the upcoming Knesset elections. This coalition will notably exclude the Ra'am party, led by Mansour Abbas. According to the agreement, the unified list will be headed by Yosef Jabareen, chairman of Hadash, followed by Ahmad Tibi, leader of Ta'al, in second place, and Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of Balad, in third place.

This decision comes amid political calculations ahead of the elections, as a recent poll by Channel 12 examined the scenario of an Arab parties' union without Ra'am. The poll indicated that in such a scenario, the parties led by Gadi Eizenkot and the Democrats would each lose one seat, while Ra'am would gain one seat, with the combined total of the two parties standing at 12 seats.