MK Mansour Abbas announced Wednesday that his Ra'am party will split with the Joint Arab List ahead of the March 23 elections, Channel 12 News reported Wednesday.
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The Joint Arab List will then now comprise the Balad, Ta'al, and Hadash parties.
Mansour had a falling out with other JAL members over his rapprochement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Recent polls, however, project that an independent Knesset run will see Ra'am fail to cross the four-seat electoral threshold.
