Prime Minister Netanyahu and opposition leader Shaul Mofaz. Photo: Algemeiner.

JPost – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has already made a final decision to seek a February 12 election rather than try to pass the 2013 state budget, politicians who spoke to Netanyahu said Thursday.

Netanyahu has said he will make a final decision when the Knesset returns from its extended summer recess on October 15. But the politicians who spoke to him said he left no doubt that his mind was already made up.

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