Substantial disagreements between the MKs of the joint list were raised at the faction meeting • Disagreement is with regard to the recommendation of the President on Gantz and the support of the personal law against Netanyahu
The joint faction, with all 15 Knesset members and elected Knesset members, met on Sunday for a first session in Kfar Qasem. At the faction meeting, Knesset members of the joint list discussed a proposal to recommend President Rivlin to Blue White Chairman MK Benny Gantz as a candidate for government assembly - a proposal rejected by most Hadash representatives on the joint list, as well as by representatives of the BLD party. Earlier, the chairman of the USSR (Islamic Movement) on the joint list denied MK Mansur Abbas, rumors that he had been secretly negotiating with the Likud on behalf of the USSR party, saying that the joint UN members would not recommend Gantz and oppose the law Netanyahu.
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Abbas vehemently denied this, and in a statement issued: "The joint list of its four components is coherent and unified and run as one faction, headed by the good of the Arab public. There are attempts to flood spins and rumors as if there were contacts in front of me and the PM separately from one or another Likud party. These are rumors and spins with no truth to them. We will continue as a faction that has achieved unprecedented achievement and gained the trust of the Arab public and thousands of votes in the Jewish Democratic public. "
Senior officials on the joint list denied that disagreements had arisen between the four parties that make up the joint list when it comes to recommending the president for blue-and-white Benny Gantz as a candidate to form the government. In the Knesset Ahmad Tibi supports the recommendation of Benny Gantz and in cooperation with Blue White and Israel our House, a law that would prevent a criminal accused from forming a government, the Hadash and the BLD has a majority against the recommendation of Gantz.
Newcomers on the joint list emphasized that the party unanimously agreed that "if blue-and-white people do not repatriate Likud and Netanyahu's policies and attempts to implement the Separation System and govern which of the components of the joint list, and as long as they do not officially and publicly address the joint list - they should expect nothing The news also stated that "Blue and White's strategy to emulate the Likud's policies - in adopting the century plan and denying the legitimacy of the Arab public - has led to their withdrawal and the withdrawal of Labor-Meretz Bridge. This lesson once again proves that the only substantive left is on the joint list and platform. We will continue to present the deep value alternative to peace, equality, education Democracy and social justice.
"What is needed is to overthrow Netanyahu and not just Netanyahu the man. Anyone who claims to be an alternative to Netanyahu is required to offer an alternative at both the political level, the Palestinian issue and the halting of settlement and annexation policies, Arab public rights and status, including the repeal of the National Law and the Kaminitz House Demolition Law. And violence and recognition of the unrecognized villages. "
In the meantime, members of the list began to formulate their requirements for recommending a candidate for president. Among the requirements presented: the repeal of the National Law, the rejection of the Centennial Plan and more. The decision to hold the first faction meeting of the joint list for the 23rd Knesset in Kassem was made to identify with 43 villagers who were shot dead in October 1956 by Border Police soldiers.