Speaker Nabih Berri will call for a parliamentary session on Tuesday to amend the deadlines set by the 1960 electoral law, An Nahar newspaper said Sunday.

The daily said that a meeting of parliament’s bureau on Monday will lead to setting a legislative session for the next day to amend some of the articles hours before PM-designate Tammam Salam begins two days of consultations with parliamentary blocs to form his new government.

Premier-designate Tammam Salam announced on Saturday that he did not make any pledges to any political powers in order to assume his position at the premiership.

He said upon his official appointment as prime minister-designate: “I aim to form a government that seeks to achieve national interests.”

The second day of the binding parliamentary consultation kicked off on Saturday morning with the blocs continuing their support for MP Tammam Salam to head a new government.

LBCI television reported that the MP garnered a total of 124 votes by lawmakers to assume the position of prime minister.

Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri assured that the designation of MP Tammam Salam to form the new cabinet was a strictly Lebanese choice, denying any Saudi role in naming him, As Safir daily quoted the ambassador in an interview on Saturday.

“I have reiterated before that the solution in Lebanon cannot but be inter-Lebanese, and that is what makes it continuous. Lebanon's fate is in the hands of its son,” said Asiri.

President Michel Suleiman signed on Saturday a decree that postpones the parliamentary elections that were set to be held on June 9 for one week.

According to the state-run National News Agency, Suleiman signed a decree that calls on amending the previous decree for holding polls on June 9, setting elections for Sunday, June 16.

Eighty-six lawmakers nominated Beirut MP Tammam Salam for the premiership on the first day of binding parliamentary consultations at the Baabda Palace, winning key endorsements from across the political spectrum.

The consultations kicked off on Friday with Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati, who stated after meeting with President Michel Suleiman that he nominates Salam for the premiership.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun announced on Friday his support for MP Tammam Salam's candidacy for the premiership.

He said: “We back Salam to head a cabinet of unity and stability.”

President Michel Suleiman urged the international community on Thursday to pressure Israel into ending its threats against Lebanon and slammed the Jewish state for violating U.N. Security Council resolution 1701.

In a statement issued by Baabda palace, Suleiman said: “The international community should pressure Israel to stop adopting the policy of threats and aggression against Lebanon and to cooperate with international and Arab peace initiatives in the Middle East.”

The families of nine Lebanese pilgrims abducted by rebels in Syria closed on Friday the shops owned by Syrians in a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs pending the release of their loved ones.

Sheikh Abbas Zgheib, who has been tasked by the Higher Islamic Shiite Council to follow up the case of the men abducted in May last year, told the National News Agency that the closure of the shops in Hay el-Sellom is a first step in the protest aimed at pressuring the involved parties to set the pilgrims free.

Lawmaker Tammam Salam is set to be tasked at the weekend with forming a new government after the March 14 coalition officially endorsed him as its candidate for the premiership and the March 8 alliance reportedly agreed late Thursday to back him.

The Beirut MP, who is the son of late Prime Minister Saeb Salam, will now be facing the task of forming a new cabinet whose form and type is until now unclear.