Leaders of a movement to replace Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak with Cabinet minister Shimon Peres as the Labor Party’s candidate for prime minister plan to announce they are stopping their campaign, Israel Radio reported. Barak supporters have maintained that the effort has only helped the election prospects of Likud leader Ariel Sharon by splitting the peace camp.
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