The Joint List alliance of Arab-majority parties has officially launched its run for the upcoming election without the United Arab List [Ra'am], the parties announced Thursday morning after talks between its four constituent parties collapsed last week.
Ra'am is set to run independently.
The bedrock of the dispute between Ra'am and the other elements of the Joint List was its growing ties with the Likud Party and its chairman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Last week, Ra'am said another source for the growing rift between the Joint List's elements pertained to religion, as the other three factions "have refused to commit to not voting on laws that contradict the beliefs" of the conservative Arab sector, including support of LGBT agendas.