Mansour Abbas secures another term leading Ra’am

By Carrie Keller-Lynn 6 August 2022, 7:12 pm Edit

Carrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel

Ra'am party leader MK Mansour Abbas speaks during a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, May 17, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Mansour Abbas secures another term leading Ra’am, as the party’s umbrella movement — the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement — approves his leadership with 85% of support from voting members of the Movement’s general assembly.

Lawmakers Walid Taha and Iman Khatib-Yasin also secure their second and fourth spots on Ra’am’s Knesset list, respectively. Taha carried 92% of the vote and Khatib-Yasin 82%.

Earlier in the evening, Ra’am’s Knesset faction director Waleed Alhawashla clinched the party’s third spot.