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Balad

التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي בל״ד

National Democratic Assembly, a secular Arab nationalist party. Founded by Azmi Bishara.

Family
nationalist ethnic
Standing
Extra-parliamentary
Review
Verified
Model it
election machine
Founded
1995
Current leader
Sami Abou Shahadeh
Founders
Azmi Bishara

Position

No position assigned yet for this party.

Members & affiliated figures

Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →

Recent events

Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →

  • Rumored Party merged date pending

    Arab parties consider joint list reunification

    Reports of discussions among Hadash, Ta'al, Balad, and Ra'am to form a unified Arab joint list ahead of the next Knesset election, after the 2022 break-up and Balad's failure to clear the 3.25 percent threshold left Arab representation fragmented. Formation has not been announced.

Source documents

Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →

Sources

Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Balad [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/balad
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Balad." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed September 20, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/balad.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-balad,
  title     = {{Balad}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Party profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/balad},
  urldate   = {2026-09-20},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-09-20},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.