President Michel Aoun stressed on Friday the need to approve a new electoral law that ensures just representation for all parties before the parliamentary polls deadline, the National News Agency reported.

Aoun assured that his stance was not against any sect or political faction, NNA added.

President Michel Aoun emphasized that warning to use his constitutional powers to obstruct the parliamentary elections if they were to be staged on basis of the controversial 1960 law is serious, and assured that he will not go against his oath of office, al-Akhbar daily reported on Friday.

In an interview with the daily, Aoun said he was decisive when he told the ministers during a cabinet session last week “what I stated in my inaugural speech, are words under oath that can not be undone.”

Hizbullah MP Ali Fayyad stressed that political forces in Lebanon are serious and eager to find an election law that will govern the parliamentary elections slated for May.

In an interview with al-Joumhouria daily, Fayyad said: “All parties are serious to find an election law. The meetings' atmospheres are constructive and serious. They reflect everybody's will to find a law as soon as possible. Our meetings are open.”

After the recent four-party meeting at the Baabda Palace which deliberated the controversial issue of an election law, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat is watching with caution what outcome will these meetings bring, al-Joumhouria daily reported Friday.

“Jumblat is carefully watching the path of the election law. He still insists on his position which rejects any law that hints at an abolition, exclusion or marginalization of the Druze community,” sources close to Jumblat told the daily.

The cabinet held a meeting on Wednesday to tackle a number of issues, mainly Lebanon's security file in light of the latest threat of a suicide attacker that was foiled by the security forces over the weekend, as President Michel Aoun announced that he prefers "vacuum" over another extension of the parliament's term.

“If I'm to choose between the extension of parliament's term or vacuum, my stance is clear in this regard -- I will choose vacuum,” TV networks quoted Aoun as saying.

Leader of the Democratic Gathering bloc MP Walid Jumblat said he insists on “positive dialogue” as for discussions on a new electoral law for the parliamentary polls, and stressed that endorsing a new law is a delicate matter that requires “precision, patience and dialogue.”

Likening the electoral process to a medical operation, he said on Twitter: “The electoral law is a delicate operation. Its successfulness requires precision, patience, consultations and dialogue.”

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron held talks with President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday and said his country needs a more "balanced" policy toward Syria.

After two days of search operations, the dead body of Lebanese citizen Majid Raji al-Hashem, 61, was found Tuesday buried in sand at a stone factory in the Jbeil town of Akoura, state-run National News Agency reported.

A Lebanese man fell to his death on Tuesday from the balcony of his house in Beirut neighborhood of Zqaq al-Blat, the National News Agency reported.

Elias Chahin, 54, fell from the 5th floor and died instantly, added NNA.

Kuwaiti envoy, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah al-Mubarak al-Sabah who arrived in Beirut a day earlier, held talks with President Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace, media reports said on Tuesday.

The Kuwaiti envoy, who is planned to hold talks with senior Lebanese figures, extended an invitation to Aoun to visit Kuwait on behalf of Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, the reports added.