Ta’al party leader MK Ahmad Tibi declared in an interview with IDF Radio that “we’ll do things we haven’t done before. We want to change reality—we’ll send Ben-Gvir and Smotrich home. Without us, there’s no regime change.”
1+Still, the Ta’al chairman didn’t specify what those steps would be or clarify how far his party would be willing to go to prevent Netanyahu from continuing in office. Among other things, he didn’t address the possibility of outside support for an alternative government or another parliamentary move that would enable forming a different government after elections.
This isn’t the first time Tibi has signaled he’d be ready for unusual steps to prevent Netanyahu from continuing in office. Back in February, he told Moran Azoulay in an interview that in a scenario where the Joint List wins 15-16 seats, Netanyahu “won’t be prime minister of the transition,” in his assessment.
1+When asked then how he intended to prevent that, he replied that “there will be several moves we haven’t done before,” and refused to elaborate even when asked if this meant, among other things, a constructive vote of no confidence.
This line echoes the 2019 and 2020 election cycles. In September 2019, Ta’al, together with Hadash and Ra’am, was a partner in the unusual move where ten members of the Joint List recommended to the president that Benny Gantz be tasked with forming the government.