The internal Labor Party elections for party head may be postponed. Over 180 Labor members have signed a petition calling for the elections to be pushed off from their early September date. Party officials met today to discuss the proposal. Both candidates in the election, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, say they are against a postponement, but Ben-Eliezer is rumored to be an unseen force behind the initiative, together with Shimon Peres. Many leading party MKs are against a postponement, while others say that the uncertain situation with the Palestinians together with the party\'s shaky political state renders far-reaching internal changes at this time ill-advised.