Tal Russo has told the Labor Party's faction ahead of a faction meeting tomorrow that he has decided to give up the guaranteed second spot on the party's list of Knesset given to him by Chairman Avi Gabbay during the last election, and that he was considering running for the party leadership.

The retired general said, the Labor Party is an important ideological party, above all personal considerations. Because of the dispersal of the Knesset and the re-election."