PSP-backed MP Ghassan Skaff has reached a list of 3 presidential names after a tour on different parties.

Skaff told al-Jadeed that he had discussed Bkerki's eleven names during his diplomatic tour in an attempt to agree on a president.

Free Patritic Movement leader Jebran Bassil, who has no specific presidential candidate, will not attend a voting session that would elect Hezbollah's candidate Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh.

"I haven't suggested a name, but I've refused candidates and considered others," Bassil said in an interview.

Saudi Ambassador Walid Bukhari met Monday with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.

After the meeting, Bukhari said that Saudi Arabia does not prefer building ties with one sect in Lebanon at the expense of another.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari has continued his visits to Lebanon’s political leaders by meeting with Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat in Clemenceau.

At Lebanon's national music conservatory, pianos collect dust and classrooms sit empty, making the institution another casualty of an economic collapse that has crippled the public sector and hampered education.

Toufic Kerbage, 65, watched the value of his pay packet and pension evaporate after the Lebanese economy began melting down in 2019, taking the local currency and people's savings with it.

Qatar has renewed its attempt to convince the Lebanese parties to endorse the presidential nomination of Army Commander General Joseph Aoun, several newspapers said on Saturday.

European investigators have grilled Lebanon's finance minister as part of a probe into the wealth of the country's central bank chief, his former boss, a judicial official told AFP.

Hezbollah has reactivated communication channels with the Free Patriotic Movement to convince it to secure quorum for Suleiman Franjieh’s election as president, a media report said.

“Until now, Hezbollah’s efforts have run into the rejection of FPM chief Jebran Bassil, but Bassil has shown positivity about leaving the freedom of choice to his MPs to attend any presidential election session called for by Speaker Nabih Berri,” al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.

French presidential adviser Patrick Durel contacted Hezbollah last weekend and reassured it that “Riyadh has shown positivity towards the election as president of Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh,” a media report said.

“In return, Durel received similar positive signs from Hezbollah about accepting any premier that Saudi Arabia would choose to lead the government,” al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.

MPs Melhem Khalaf and Najat Aoun Saliba of the Change bloc on Friday criticized a decision by the judiciary’s disciplinary council to expel Mt. Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun from the judiciary over alleged violations related to her work.

“Judge Ghada Aoun has dared to open some files at a time others have refrained from that,” Khalaf and Saliba said in a joint tweet.