Speaker Nabih Berri could call for a parliamentary session next week to vote on the extension of the legislature's mandate, parliamentary sources said Saturday.

The sources told several local dailies that the session would likely be held on Thursday, before the end of the ordinary session on May 31.

The representatives of National Struggle Front leader Walid Jumblat in the government will boycott a cabinet session next week over his rejection to go ahead with the June parliamentary elections due to the worsening security situation in the country, media reports said Saturday.

Several dailies expected the three ministers representing Jumblat in caretaker Premier Najib Miqati's government to boycott Monday's session that is aimed at forming the authority that will supervise the polls and guaranteeing the funds necessary for the interior ministry to organize the elections.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Friday announced his support for extending parliament's term, rejecting “the elections farce” and defending the army against verbal attacks from Tripoli politicians.

“Amid these bleak circumstances, I don't think that it is useful to engage in the elections farce,” said Jumblat after meeting Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain al-Tineh.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday rejected a return to the 1960 electoral law, urging Speaker Nabih Berri to hold a parliamentary session aimed at voting on a new law.

“Holding a cabinet session to form the electoral supervisory commission and take the necessary measures to hold the polls under the 1960 law is against the National Pact and thus illegitimate despite being legal,” Geagea said in a press release.

Several officials submitted on Friday their candidacies to the upcoming parliamentary polls, including the Free Patriotic Movement, the AMAL movement, the March 14 Independent MPs, the Lebanese Forces and Hizbullah, despite strong objections over the adoption of the 1960 electoral law at the polls to avoid uncontested victories.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, Caretaker Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui and several members of the party filed their electoral candidacies.

Speaker Nabih Berri has intensified his contacts with various political powers in order to garner their approval over the extension of parliament's term given their failure to agree on a parliamentary electoral law, said media reports on Friday.

An Nahar daily stated that Berri is seeking to extend the term before the end of May, while parliament's tenure ends on June 19.

Efforts to form a new government have reached a dead-end given the tense local and regional developments, reported the daily An Nahar Friday.

President Michel Suleiman and Speaker Nabih Berri's efforts have not yielded any results, while al-Joumhouria newspaper Friday said that these efforts will gain steam as soon as the disputes over the extension of parliament's term and holding the elections are resolved.

Development and Liberation bloc MPs are expected to submit their candidacies on Friday to run for the upcoming parliamentary election, media reports said.

According to An Nahar newspaper, the head of the AMAL movement Speaker Nabih Berri called on lawmakers affiliated in his bloc to file their electoral candidacies on Friday to prevent any constitutional vacuum.

Head of the Mustaqbal bloc MP Fouad Saniora contacted on Thursday a number of Shiite religious and political figures as part of efforts to put an end to Hizbullah's “dangerous” fighting in Syria.

He stressed the need to end the party's involvement “through all possible means.”

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed on Wednesday his concern over the security situation in northern Lebanon in light of the eruption of clashes between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.

He also voiced his concern over the security situation in other regions in Lebanon, his visitors quoted him as saying during his weekly meeting with lawmakers held at his Ain el-Tineh residence.