The Labor party decided on Monday to cancel an internal vote on whether to hold a primary for Labor leadership and its list for the Knesset in the September 17 election. According to the compromise, the leadership primaries will be held on July 2 among the party's 60,000 members. Labor will hold a convention next week to decide whether to freeze its current Knesset list or elect a new list in a primary. Leadership candidates Amir Peretz and Itzik Shmuli welcomed the move.
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