Balad and Ta’al are boycotting a press conference today in Nazareth meant to call on Arab parties to unite ahead of the September 17 race.
The best-ever showing for Arab parties, some 10.5 percent of total votes cast, occurred in the 2015 election, the first time all the Arab-majority parties — Hadash, Balad, Ra’am and Ta’al — ran in a single unified list.
After splitting in half ahead of the April 2019 race to two alliances, Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am-Balad, the parties lost about a quarter of their total votes.
That has led to new calls to reunite in the hope of attracting once again a larger turnout among Arab voters. But the leaders of the various parties have squabbled over placement on the joint list.
The Nazareth presser is being convened by Hadash and Ra’am, and is seen by the other two parties as an effort to pressure them to accept lower positions on the shared list, the Haaretz daily reports.
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