The Yisrael Hayom newspaper reports that intensive talks have been held recently between Labor Knesset members and Meretz party leaders in order to establish a joint list for the April 9th Knesset elections that will not include Labor Chairman Avi Gabbay.
There are no final agreements yet, but the parties decided to speed up the talks immediately after the primaries, on the assumption that many members of Knesset who did not enter Labor's first quintet would push for the move because they feared they would not be re-elected.