Today's election day will probably be the only day on which the three Arab parties will cooperate out of all the days of the campaign.
The three parties: Hadash-Ta'al, Ra'am and Balad will today operate a joint bus system that will drive the people of the Arab sector to the polling stations, mainly from educational institutions, universities and colleges where there is a large concentration of the Arab population, with the aim of increasing the general voting rate of the sector.
This unusual cooperation will come after many weeks of prolonged disconnection, aggressive campaigns against each other, a run with three heads that endangers the Arab representation in the next Knesset, and above all despair and indifference among the sector and estimates of a voter turnout that will reach the lowest level.
In the last few days it seems that there has been a significant awakening, and what seemed unattainable - three different parties passing the blocking percentage - may come true at the end of the day.
A rough start
Of course, the beginning was not like that.
Just moments before the deadline for submitting the lists, Balad separated from the joint list, leaving the Arab public stunned with three parties, one of which clearly did not pass the threshold.
As the campaign progressed, and Balad's attacks against the other two lists, and Hadash-Ta'al's attacks on Ra'am, which was a coalition partner in the Zionist government, it became clear that the Arab public is angry with its representatives, discouraged and mostly indifferent.
were attacked for their participation in the coalition.
Ra'am, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
They opposed the Zionist government.
Hadash-Ta'al, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Will they pass the blocking percentage?
Balad,
The polls received by the party leaders showed a participation rate of less than 40%, far below the normal participation rate of the sector and much lower than the participation rate of the general sector.
At a certain point, Balad began to rise and endanger the existence of Hadash-Ta'al, which seemed at one point that it too might not pass the blocking percentage. The low point was when the deadline for signing surplus agreements between the parties arrived, without any Arab party signed with her colleague.
A torch visit catalyzed a change
But in recent days it seems that there has been an awakening.
Various actions carried out by left-wing people from the Jewish sector, associations and organizations, and even Yair Lapid who came to visit Nazareth activists, succeeded in arousing the area and possibly increasing the number of voters.
managed to provoke change.
torch,
If the joint transportation project is successful, it is possible that Balad will also pass the percentage of blocking, and that the Arab voting rate will even rise above 50% - a record of recent years.
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