Chairman of the Joint List does not rule out the suspicions – and even normalizes them

Chairman of the Joint List, Yosef Jabareen, said that "if there were budgets transferred to increase voter turnout – there is nothing wrong with that," amid the Ra'amgate affair in which seven suspects were arrested on suspicion of vote buying.

Amid the affair of suspicions of vote buying and foreign funding in Arab society, Chairman of the Joint List Yosef Jabareen provides a controversial statement. Jabareen said that "if there were budgets transferred to increase voter turnout – there is nothing wrong with that." These words come as seven suspects were arrested in the Ra'amgate affair, in which it is suspected that money was transferred in exchange for voting in the Negev, and the Shin Bet was asked to investigate suspicions of foreign interference in the elections. The article presents Jabareen's words as an attempt to normalize the suspicions, using an accusatory headline.