Speaker Nabih Berri adjourned Wednesday the 24th time in a row a parliamentary session set to elect a new head of state over lack of quorum.

Berri said that the new session will be held on June 24.

Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that the cabinet would not collapse over a dispute on security and military appointments despite threats made by Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun.

“Even if some (parties) were absent (from the cabinet), it will remain constitutional,” Berri's visitors quoted him as saying.

Speaker Nabih Berri has pledged to defend the government over fears that it would collapse due to differences between the rival March 8 and 14 alliances on a military solution on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal and the appointment of top security and military officials.

“I will defend the cabinet with all my strength,” Berri told his visitors in remarks published in local newspapers on Monday.

Speaker Nabih Berri voiced his skepticism that the proposal to elect a new president through a simple majority at parliament will work, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

The daily said that the speaker stressed that the elections must take place through a quorum of two thirds during the first and second rounds of votes.

Speaker Nabih Berri described the political situation in Lebanon as an “inverted cup of water” but stressed that the dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement was guaranteeing stability.

“The country is functioning in reverse order and illogically,” Berri, whose remarks were published in local dailies on Friday, told his visitors.

Speaker Nabih Berri has described Lebanon as a democracy but did not elaborate on calls made by March 14 MPs to reduce the quorum required to hold the presidential elections.

Berri said in remarks published in several local dailies on Wednesday that Lebanon is a “democratic state.”

Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that Baabda Palace has been vacant for the past 14 months, blaming all political parties for the failure to elect a new president.

Several local dailies on Monday quoted Berri as telling his visitors that Lebanon has been suffering from a presidential vacuum since March 24, 2014, the day the 60-day constitutional deadline began for the election of a head of state.

Speaker Nabih Berri lamented the lawmakers' failure to fill the vacuum at the top state post in the country saying that he “still does not see light on the horizon.”

“Leaving the democratic game is what brought us to this end. Its a pity that the parliament held two dozen sessions to elect a president (and failed) and I still do not see light on the horizon,” Berri told al-Mustaqbal daily in comments, expressing regret and sorrow.

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed relief on Wednesday over the progress made in the case of the servicemen taken hostage by the al-Qaida-affiliate al-Nusra Front.

“There is an important and positive development in the case,” Berri was quoted as saying by his visitors in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement would reportedly agree on the appointment of Commando Regiment chief Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz as army chief if Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun abandoned his presidential aspirations.

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday that the adviser of al-Mustaqbal Movement chief Saad Hariri, Nader Hariri, informed the aide of Speaker Nabih Berri, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, that the movement doesn’t reject the appointment of Roukoz, Aoun's son-in-law, on condition the FPM chief withdraws from the presidential race.