A member of the new center-left government informed Ahmad Tibi the coalition would need his party's help, the Ta'al party chairman said Monday.
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In an interview with Arabic-language Nas Radio, Tibi noted that "the result at the swearing-in was 59 to 60." He said.
"Yesterday, a senior member of the new coalition told me such a situation is hell and that they need us," he said, noting: "We made it clear any vote by our party would have a political and parliamentarian price."
Despite reports in recent weeks Ta'al lawmakers Tibi and Osama Saadi were contemplated voting in favor of the so-called "pro-change" coalition, both Ta'al members, along with the entire Joint Arab List faction of which Ta'al is a member, voted against the center-left government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister-designate and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
According to the Joint Arab List official, it would have been "totally realistic" for those Ta'al members to vote in favor of the coalition because he said Tibi and Saadi are both pragmatists who have already spoken of the need for the Joint Arab List "to take an active and central part in the political field."
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