Speaker Nabih Berri congratulated Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi for sponsoring a reconciliation between Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh, and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea that ended 40-years of enmity, the National News Agency reported on Thursday.

Former PM Najib Miqati threw support behind PM-designate Saad Hariri who has been seeking for more than six months to line-up a government amid several obstacles hampering his mission, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

The so-called independent Sunni MPs of March 8 insisted on their demand to be represented in the government, as the formation of the Cabinet stumbles further.

MP Walid Sukkarieh, a deputy of a recently-formed grouping of six pro-Hizbullah MPs, told VDL (93.3) radio station: “We adhere to our position, we are only claiming what’s our right which we won’t abandon.”

Caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said on Wednesday that tampering with the Prime Minister was tampering with the tenure of President Michel Aoun, stressing the need for a “strong government and strong PM.”

Lebanon’s government formation gridlock has reached its “peak” amid growing concerns that further delay plunges the country into a “grave crisis”, as Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil “plans an initiative” to solve the so-called Sunni hurdle, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

The legislative session kicked off at the Parliament on Monday chaired by Speaker Nabih Berri where lawmakers were set to endorse several draft laws, as the government formation process continues to stall, the National News Agency reported.

The Parliament endorsed a bill related to health care and medication, said NNA.

In a statement on Monday, the Saudi Embassy in Lebanon said that scammers have been impersonating themselves as Saudi officials, convening with Lebanese figures without any official capacity.

Lebanon’s government formation continues to stall as Hizbullah "puts the ball” in PM-designate Saad Hariri’s court saying “he should save his government” by allowing the representation of so-called independent Sunni MPs of March 8, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

President Michel Aoun stressed on Saturday that he would spare no effort to "solve the hurdles hampering the formation of the new cabinet," the National News Agenct reported.

Aoun, whose remarks came during a meeting with Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and the East, Youssef Absi, added that "it takes courage and patience to reach a happy end, but we will definitely find the solution because waiting is a waste of time."

French Ambassador to Lebanon, Bruno Foucher, celebrated on Saturday the commemoration of the "Truce of November 11, 1918," during a ceremony held in the French military cemetery in Beirut.