Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea held on Thursday a series of discussions with his allies in the March 14 opposition alliance in addition to the Maronite patriarch on the controversial electoral draft-law.

Geagea's press office said the LF leader telephoned al-Mustaqbal bloc leader Fouad Saniora to discuss with him the vote law and stress the need to exert efforts to reach consensus.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea said Thursday that he hasn't lost hope on the ability of rival lawmakers to reach consensus on an electoral draft-law ahead of this year's parliamentary polls.

In remarks to An Nahar newspaper, Geagea said: “The efforts to find consensus (among the different factions) should continue no matter what.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel held a lengthy phone conversation on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments regarding the electoral law.

"Both parties agreed to keep communication ongoing in this matter,” a statement released by the LF said.

Former PM Saad Hariri and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea agreed to keep up efforts in a bid to find a new electoral law that guarantees national consensus, on the backdrop of Tuesday's approval of the controversial Orthodox Gathering proposal, the al-Joumhouria daily said Wednesday.

In a lengthy phone call overnight, the two men touched on the thorny draft-law that was approved by the joint parliamentary committees, amid a walkout by the lawmakers of al-Mustaqbal bloc, the National Struggle Front and some independent Christian March 14 MPs.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun stated that an agreement over a new parliamentary electoral law, specifically the Orthodox Gathering draft law, is not linked to constitutional rules, reported al-Akhbar newspaper on Friday.

He told the newspaper: “President Michel Suleiman should not bother rejecting the law because it does not require consensus seeing as it is an electoral mechanism.”

The March 14 opposition alliance was on Thursday gearing up to mark the 8th assassination anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri at the BIEL exhibition center in downtown Beirut in the absence of key leaders.

Under the slogan of “Our Dream Will Come True,” the coalition will stress its unity despite the latest differences among its different factions on the electoral draft-law, Hariri's al-Mustaqbal newspaper said.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stated on Wednesday that there is “unannounced war on Sunnis in Lebanon”, revealing that he will not take part in the March 14 commemoration of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination on Thursday.

“There is an attempt to accuse Sunnis of terrorism and of being behind all operations on the military institutions,” Geagea said in an interview with Future TV, accusing the Free Patriotic Movement of taking on the task to attack Sunnis in the “war against the Shiites”.

The electoral subcommittee resumed talks on Monday to find common ground between rival parties on an electoral law that better represents all Lebanese factions and sects.

The subcommittee chairman MP Robert Ghanem told reporters gathered at the parliament after the first round of talks that “Tuesday is the last day to suggest amendments on the hybrid electoral law.”

A top Syrian security official has recently sent Hizbullah a list of Lebanese political and military personalities targeted for assassination, the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper reported on Sunday.

The daily quoted a Gulf diplomat in Abu Dhabi as saying that the list, which includes 13 names, was sent by Maj. Gen. Ali Mamlouk, who has been charged by a Lebanese military court of involvement along with ex-Information Minister Michel Samaha in a terror plot to destabilize Lebanon.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea held a telephone conversation on Friday amid preparations to hold a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

It said that the two officials discussed the latest developments on efforts to reach an agreement over a new parliamentary electoral law.