Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas addressed the question of his decision to enter a government in which right-wing parties also belong this morning (Thursday) at the Haaretz Conference on Arab-Jewish Political Partnership.
Abbas noted that his party "is in a better place in terms of public support - even if we go to the polls there is nowhere to go."
According to Abbas, "in a decade people will say there was such an experiment and start thinking logically about where we succeeded and where we did not."
Abbas explained that the political partnership is a process and added that "if the success continues - we will succeed again if there are elections", while noting that despite the hope that the government will overcome the crises, he added that "this coalition may have to go to the polls to return to the same point". .
Abbas explained the ideological concessions his party had to make to keep the coalition stable and said that from the outset he did not even seek to "put on the table everything that needed to be addressed", but rather act on what he considered "mental supervision".
For example, Abbas explained that he decided to focus on dealing with crime and violence in Arab society, and not on other issues.
When asked about the Citizenship Law, he replied that "I did not make the Citizenship Law a priority. I am not ashamed. We did not say we want to deal now with all the issues between Jews and Arabs. We went to the polls and told him we have an agenda - you give us a mandate To promote a solution to these issues. "
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