Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil reassured Sunday that the possible election of FPM founder MP Michel Aoun as president will not involve “bilateral, tripartite or four-party agreements” between political parties.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called for an “inter-Lebanese initiative” that ends the country's lengthy presidential vacuum.

Supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement flocked Sunday from all Lebanese regions to an area outside the presidential palace in Baabda to mark the anniversary of the 1990 ouster of FPM founder MP Michel Aoun from the palace at the hands of Syrian forces.

Senior Hizbullah official Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek has stressed that his party is not to blame for the delay in electing a new president, pinning the blame anew on Saudi Arabia.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri will take his time before declaring support for Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun's presidential nomination and will not make any move before finishing all his internal and external consultations that aim to “explore all opinions, risks and repercussions,” Mustaqbal sources have said.

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh has vowed once again that he will not withdraw from the presidential race.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, began on Saturday his pastoral visit to Tyre, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The Patriarch's first stop was the town of Ain Ibel, where he was met by representative of House Speaker Nabih Berri, MP Ali Bazzi, representative of Hizbullah, MP Hassan Fadlallah, representative of Kataeb, former Minister Salim Sayegh, and former General Wahbi Qatisha, representing the Lebanese Forces. Also greeting the Patriarch was UNIFIL Chief of Staff, and leaders of the French, Finnish, and Irish contingents, as well as representatives of the Lebanese Armed Forces.

A meeting between ex-PM Saad Hariri and political adviser to the Speaker Minister Ali Hassan Khalil in Paris, did not achieve much at the level of the presidential nominations, media reports said on Saturday.

The meeting between the two officials was not prepared beforehand, it happened by chance when Hariri was taking a walk and he ran accidentally into Khalil, who was on a visit to Paris to deliver a lecture, the reports added.

The Free Patriotic Movement is pleased with the general “positive” atmospheres surrounding the nomination of its founder MP Michel Aoun for the presidential post, as media reports said that ex-PM Saad Hariri will possibly declare Aoun's nomination next week, al-Akhbar daily reported on Saturday.

Prominent sources of the FPM told al-Akhbar daily that “the atmospheres are very positive. The rally of Aoun's supporters tomorrow will be the last one to be held on the road of the people's palace under the orange flags. The next meeting will be held at the Presidential Palace under the Lebanese flags.”

Speaker Nabih Berri voiced calls on the parliamentarians to either resume the all-party talks, or go to the parliament to elect a president in the next session, al-Akhbar daily reported on Saturday.