Islamist Ra’am Party Expected To Vote In Favor Of Bennett-Lapid Government

By Staff Reporter
Posted on 05/10/21 | News Source: YNET News

The Islamist Ra’am party has reportedly agreed Sunday night to back a unity government led by Yamina and Yesh Atid chiefs Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid but will not be part of it.

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In return, the government will honor a list of demands Ra’am tabled to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party when it was in possession of the government mandate, including the chairmanship of prominent Knesset committees and allocation of budgets aiming to tackle the issues bedeviling Israel’s Arab sector, such crumbling infrastructure and high rates of poverty and crime.

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