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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the president of the Jewish state and a former minister of conspiring against his overthrow, triggering accusations of "paranoia" before the elections.
"I know that a former Likud minister had talks with the coalition and concocted a subversive plot, I won a big victory in the next elections and he assures me that I am not Prime Minister", he told an assembly from his right. Likud party night Wednesday night celebrating its 69th birthday.
According to this plan, President Reuven Rivlin would use his prerogative as a state leader to appoint another Likud candidate to head a post-election government.
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Although Netanyahu did not explicitly name him, Gideon Saar, a former Likud minister and top rival, has publicly publicly denied any such maneuver, while Rivlin called it "paranoia".
The next Israeli parliamentary elections are scheduled for November 2019, but early elections may be held in the event of a crisis in the ruling Likud coalition led by Netanyahu.
"If Netanyahu decided not to push up the elections, it's not because President Rivlin or former Likud Minister Saar is looking for him, but rather to avoid coinciding with a accusation that could ruin him, "commented Haaretz newspaper.
Netanyahu, who maintains his innocence in several corruption cases, is not obliged to resign as Prime Minister even though he is formally charged.
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