Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Friday warned that Lebanon's “arbitrary” subsidization on basic products amid the nation's economic crisis is depleting the country's foreign currency reserves.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat received the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid al-Bukhari at his residence in Mount Lebanon’s Chouf district town of Mukhtara, MTV television station reported Saturday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Thursday raised doubts a government would be soon formed, despite a format presented by the PM-designate Saad Hariri a day earlier to the president.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Tuesday said the ongoing debate to pick a PM before the binding parliamentary consultations was “unconstitutional.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Tuesday made an appeal for rescuing “innocent citizens” from “the chaos of gunmen.”

“Rescue the innocent citizens in the Saadiyat area from the chaos of gunmen, whoever they may be,” Jumblat tweeted, referring to a coastal Chouf area that lies around 25 kilometers south of Beirut.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Thursday criticized a raid by State Security agents on the building of al-Akhbar newspaper, wondering if Lebanon has returned to the Syrian tutelage era.

Progressive Socialist Party chief ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Firday mourned the death of his cherished dog Oscar, describing the late pet as a dear “friend” and “companion.”

“Farewell most precious friend, farewell most precious companion, farewell my dear,” Jumblat tweeted, attaching a picture of Oscar and himself to the tweet.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat noted Monday that “the return of Syrian refugees will not happen as long as the Syrian regime continues to reject it.”

“These people have fears,” Jumblat pointed out on the sidelines of a PSP seminar titled “Lebanon and the Syria Refugees: Rights, Concerns and Return Diplomacy”.

President Michel Aoun received on Thursday the former French President Francois Hollande who plans to make a series of meetings with Lebanese officials to discuss the economic aid for Lebanon agreed at the CEDRE support conference last year.

Hollande had arrived Wednesday in Beirut and met with Prime Minister Saad Hariri who threw a banquet in his honor.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party chief ex-MP Walid Jumblat held talks Thursday evening at the Center House, after the latest war of words between them was contained.

“We will discuss topics that we disagree on and others that we agree on,” said Jumblat upon his arrival at the Center House.