A delegation of 30 mayors and other local authorities in new development towns met with Premier Yitzhak Rabin today to express their support for his continued leadership of the Labor Party. They deplored Defense Minister Shimon Peres’ challenge to Rabin to head the party list in the May 17 elections and warned that an internal struggle could do serious damage to the Labor Party and perhaps ruin it.
Some members of the group expressed alarm that the contest between Rabin and Peres would affect Labor’s ability to cope with the opposition and the threat of emerging new political factions. Instead of uniting the party against the growing forces of the “right-wing” elements Peres’ challenge will weaken it, they said. Zvi Eidorati, mayor of Migdal HaEmek, warned that if Rabin lost out to Peres it would constitute an admission by the Labor Party that its leadership had failed.
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