Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that any electoral draft law that suggests tipping the victory of a particular political group over another would only receive rejection from the other, which compels the necessity to agree on a law that finds the approval and reassurance of all sides, the An Nahar daily said Saturday.

In an interview to the daily Berri stressed that “efforts are underway to study all proposed draft law projects until we find the appropriate one that finds approval of all parties.”

Progressive Socialist Party Leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Monday that refraining from slashing the salaries of MPs, ministers and officials will only lead to deepening the rift between the citizen and society.

In his weekly editorial in al-Anbaa newspaper, Jumblat called for reconsidering the financial disbursement of Lebanese officials “at the expense of citizens and the public treasury”.

Hizbullah has made overtures towards Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat in a bid to convince him of an electoral law based on proportional representation and a new, appealing distribution of electorates, but the Druze leader held on to his rejection of an electoral law based on proportional representation, which he believes is aimed at eliminating a major political camp, a National Struggle Front source said.

The PSP “was a pioneer in advocating proportional representation as a step towards reform, but it does not believe that raising it at the moment is aimed at improving the Lebanese electoral system, but rather at eliminating a rival Lebanese camp that has its weight in the Lebanese equation, in a manner that would increase threats to stability and national unity in the country,” the source quoted Jumblat as saying, in remarks published Sunday by the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stated that political difference should never escalate into armed clashes, regardless of how great the dispute, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

He said before his visitors while reminiscing about the “futile” Lebanese civil war: “At the time, no human would ever have imagined that the Islamic resistance would turn its arms towards the internal scene.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Tuesday that his cabinet is keen to maintain the financial balance in the country and to allocate the necessary money to finance the new salaries scale for public employees.

“We can't spend without having revenues,” he said in comments published in An Nahar newspaper.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Monday voiced regret over the recent burning of several souks in the war-torn northern Syrian city of Aleppo, stressing that the embattled regime of President Bashar Assad was “the prime culprit” behind the destruction in Syria's second city.

“The city of Aleppo is burning and turning into rubble and debris amid a state of indifference, not to say collusion by all the parties and forces involved in the Syrian crisis,” said Jumblat in his weekly editorial in al-Anbaa newspaper, his party's mouthpiece.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stated on Friday that the government proposal over the parliamentary electoral law and the one suggested by the MPs Georges Adwan, Sami Gemayel, and Butros Harb are the best current offers on the matter, saying that the Free Patriotic Movement has to choose one of them.

He said during a press conference: “The FPM however is more concerned with harming the interests of the Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and the Mustaqbal Movement to take into consideration Christian concerns in the elections.”

Speaker Nabih Berri has announced respect for the viewpoint of all parties that have proposed electoral draft-laws but he remains adamant on the adoption of Lebanon as a single electoral district, his sources and An Nahar daily reported.

Berri met on Thursday with a ministerial delegation from the Progressive Socialist Party that said the speaker expressed “openness” to hear the suggestion of all sides on a law for the 2013 parliamentary elections.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat highlighted on Thursday the attack on the Syrian army headquarters on Wednesday, saying that the army today is “burning and being burnt due to the ruling regime and its lies.”

He said in a statement: “The burning of the headquarters means that Syria will sink into chaos, civil war, and destruction along with the Syrian army.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat criticized the March 14 opposition on Thursday for not consulting him on a new law drafted by the coalition's Christians in coordination with al-Mustaqbal movement.

“No one consulted us on either big or small-sized districts,” he told local newspapers.