The Consultative Gathering MPs have reportedly agreed to nominate Jawad Adra for a ministerial seat to represent them in the new government, LBCI TV station reported on Thursday.

Sources close to MP Faisal Karami, told LBCI that the “MPs have agreed on Adra, and await to determine the date for a meeting with President Michel Aoun at Baabda Palace tomorrow to announce the agreement.”

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri held talks at the Center House on Wednesday with the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari, Hairir’s media office said.

The shuttle movement to form Lebanon’s government by Friday or Saturday accelerated after agreeing on a way out to name a minister representing the pro-Hizbullah Independent Sunni MPs from outside their Consultative Gathering, al-Hayat newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Tashnaq party MP Hagop Pakradounian said there was no obstacle related to the “Armenian representation” as circulated in the media, but affirmed the party’s right for getting a portfolio.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly claimed that “Hizbullah has shut down precision missile plants in Lebanon that Israel exposed in September,” media reports said on Wednesday.

An Israeli army task force has crossed the technical fence on Wednesday facing the area of al-Wazzani parks and combed the area, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Prospects grew on Wednesday that Lebanon’s seven-month delayed government could be formed before the year-end when the pro-Hizbullah Consultative Gathering MPs agreed to name a figure from outside their group to get a ministerial seat in the government.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim stated on Tuesday after holding talks with the Consultative Gathering MPs that an “initiative” to ease the government formation impasse has been “crowned with success,” without disclosing the candidate’s name to represent said MPs.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil on Tuesday said a new government “is likely be formed before the Christmas vacation.”

Former PM Najib Miqati stressed on Tuesday that President Michel Aoun is “confident” the government crisis will be resolved.