Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak has decided to run in the September Knesset elections as part of an independent party and not with the Labor Party, Channel 13 News reported on Friday.
Barak had been considering returning to the political arena and running at the head of an independent list, though he was also contemplating the idea of running for the leadership of the Labor Party, which he last led in 2011 before splitting the party and forming the short-lived Independence party.
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