Balad chief predicts party ‘will prove victorious’ as exit polls show it just under threshold

Taking the stage after exit polls showed Balad falling just short of the minimum vote threshold in several exit polls, party leader Sami Abou Shahadeh says he still has hope his party will enter the Knesset.

“Exit polls don’t take into account the last few hours because they close early and the rising turnout will prove Balad victorious,” he says.

He also charges that polls “have never been fair to Balad.”

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