During a speech addressing the Knesset plenum, Joint List Party leader Ayman Odeh said the incoming government provided "room for joy, but not for complacency."
"This is a bad government that will be formed today. Ministers from the extremist right will hold many portfolios, such as Ayelet Shaked, Gideon Sa'ar, Avigdor Lieberman, Zeev Elkin and Oded Forer."
Odeh said that the Jewish-Arab partnership due to the conservative Islamist Ra'am Party's entrance into the coalition - for the first time in Israel's history - was based on harming Jerusalem, harming the Negev and harming Arab citizens.
"We are looking for a different partnership of Jews and Arabs. One based on peace, equality, democracy and social justice, that does not exist in this government."
Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas said on Sunday that "No one has sold the Negev to Ra'am. The Negev Desert is still a part of the State of Israel. Citizens of the Negev are citizens of the State of Israel."