Lebanese TV networks on Sunday aired a video showing ex-minister Michel Samaha giving his testimony to interrogators in the wake of his 2012 arrest over a plot to stage bombings and assassinations in Lebanon in collaboration with a senior Syrian security official.

The video comes three days after Samaha was released from jail on bail under a controversial Military Court ruling.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil stressed Sunday that “nothing justifies postponing the parliamentary polls,” as the FPM held unprecedented internal elections based on the “proportional representation” system.

Bassil voiced his remarks during an inspection tour that saw him visit Akkar, Baalbek-Hermel, Jezzine, Jbeil, Keserwan, Beirut and Aley.

A Kuwaiti man was kidnapped Sunday from his farm in the Bekaa town of Qab Elias, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

“Three unknown assailants abducted Kuwaiti national Mohsen Barrak al-Majed from his farm in Qab Elias,” NNA said.

The family of two Lebanese young men abducted in Libya on Sunday staged a sit-in in the northern town of Mhammara during which the international highway was briefly blocked.

“Relatives of the two young men Mohammed and Khaled Nazha staged a symbolic sit-in during which they briefly blocked the international Minieh-Abdeh highway in the town of Mhammara,” state-run National News Agency reported.

A brother of jailed ex-MP Hassan Yaaqoub launched a series of accusations Sunday against Speaker Nabih Berri's AMAL Movement in connection with the former MP's detention by Lebanese authorities.

“The case is political par excellence and his judicial file is totally empty,” Yaaqoub's brother Ali said at a press conference.

Former President Michel Suleiman slammed media reports alleging that his ministerial bloc and that of the Kataeb party had demanded appointing one of the two Christian members in the military council in return for accepting the appointment of the second by the Change and Reform bloc head MP Michel Aoun.

“We have not and will not demand naming one of the members as a condition to accept the nomination of the other. We continue to call for respecting the mechanism and standards and to distance the military institution from conflicts,” said Suleiman in a tweet.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea urged Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi to carry on with a request to refer the trail of ex-Minister Michel Samaha to the judicial council in the wake of his release from jail.

“I urge the Justice Minister to go ahead with the draft project to refer the case of Samaha to the judicial council,” said Geagea via twitter on Sunday.

French sources following up closely on the Lebanese presidential file said that France will likely discuss the thorny issue with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during his visit to the French capital slated for January 28, the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Sunday.

“Paris will raise the subject of the Lebanese presidency with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during his visit to France in January, without showing that it is posing a requirement on Iran so that the Iranian side does not raise the price,” the daily said quoting French sources.

Ministers of the Kataeb party and former President Michel Suleiman refuse to give the privilege of naming the two Christian figures for the appointment of military council to MP Michel Aoun, al-Mustaqbal daily reported on Sunday.

“Two parties in the cabinet, the Kataeb and ministers of President Michel Suleiman, refuse that MP Aoun names the Christian members for the military council appointments. They want to suggest one of the candidates leaving naming the other to Aoun,” ministerial sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.

Head of the Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc MP Fouad Saniora condemned on Saturday on behalf of the March 14 alliance the release of former Minister Michel Samaha from prison, saying that the Military Court's ruling is an “insult to the Lebanese people.”

He said: “The Lebanese people will not accept a new phase of foreign hegemony and will reject a Military Court that pardons traitors.”