The ongoing presidential vacuum might last for more than a year due to the political deadlock, a senior official told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Tuesday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat is in favor of a caretaker cabinet session that would tackle vital matters like education instead of electricity.

Jumblat considered, in remarks published Tuesday in al-Joumhouria newspaper, that the electricity problem is hard to be solved, urging for reforming the sector before spending on it.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday warned that a caretaker cabinet session scheduled for Wednesday will “violate the constitution and the Pact,” deepen the national rift and undermine balances and understandings.”

He added, in a video posted online, that a “constitutional” solution for passing decrees needed to purchase fuel for electricity would be through so-called “roaming decrees” signed by all ministers.

Mount Lebanon Environmental Prosecutor Judge Fadi Malkoun has filed charges against the state-run Council for Development and Reconstruction and its chief Nabil al-Jisr as well as against the contractor Jihad al-Arab and his company, LBCI television reported on Monday.

Malkoun accused the aforementioned parties of “executing the Costa Brava landfill project without obtaining an environmental impact approval from the Environment Ministry,” LBCI said.

The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammed Raad announced Monday that his party wants “a president who can reflect the aspirations of the Lebanese and preserve the current balances between the political authorities and the components of the Lebanese society.”

“The enemy should not be able to bet on him or on his weakness or to take a signature or a stance from him,” Raad added.

The Joint Parliamentary Committees on Monday approved the capital control draft law and referred it to parliament for a final vote, Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab said.

“The discussion was beneficial and a final format of the law was adopted,” Bou Saab said after the session.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has stressed that the “strongest” presidential candidate until the moment is MP Michel Mouawad, noting that “his name is not proposed for entertainment purposes.”

The LF leader voiced his remarks during an overnight interview on al-Jadeed television.

European investigators began questioning high-profile witnesses in Lebanon as part of a probe into Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh's wealth, a judicial official told AFP Monday.

France, Germany and Luxembourg in March seized assets worth 120 million euros ($130 million) in a move linked to a probe by French investigators into 72-year-old Salameh's personal wealth.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati called Monday for a cabinet session on Wednesday morning.

The Free Patriotic Movement had repeatedly warned against holding any caretaker cabinet session during presidential vacuum, arguing that any decree issued would require the signatures of all ministers.

Thirteen relatives of the victims of the massive 2020 explosion at Beirut's port showed up on Monday to answer questions by police after they were accused of rioting and vandalism during protests over the stalled investigation into the blast.

On Tuesday, victims' relatives had thrown stones at the palace of justice in Beirut and stormed the outer gate of the building. Some of them were injured as they clashed with security forces.