Labor Party officials will convene a press conference today, and will announce that they will not join a national unity government headed by Ariel Sharon. Labor thus hopes to retrieve voters who have migrated to the anti-religious Shinui party. Party leader Amram Mitzna has long been in favor of this strategy, while Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and others have agreed to go along. It is not certain, however, whether the party will retain this strategy the day after the elections. Central Committee members were quoted as saying today that it's important "for the country, even if not for the party," to join a national unity government.