Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Sunday urged a Christian agreement on a new president.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab on Friday held a meeting with MP Mohammed Raad -- the head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc.

“The meeting was necessary and important and aimed to evaluate the stage that we are going through and to seek to find exits and common denominators among the parliamentary blocs,” Bou Saab said after the talks.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said he is not expecting the worst, and that his words were misinterpreted when he said he only sees negativity.

"I am neither pessimistic nor optimistic," Berri told al-Liwaa, in remarks published Friday. He added that the foreign indications are positive concerning the election of Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met Friday with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to discuss the latest developments in the region.

The talks stressed on the Iranian-Saudi agreement and its repercussions on the region, as well as the latest developments in Lebanon and Palestine, the National News Agency said.

Kataeb, Tajaddod, and Change MPs filed Friday an appeal before the Constitutional Council against the recent law that extended the municipalities' term, a day after a delegation from the Lebanese Forces bloc appealed against the law.

Earlier this month, Parliament voted to extend the terms of local officials, paving the way to postpone municipal elections for up to a year for a second time.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh’s former assistant Marianne Hoayek appeared Thursday before a European investigators delegation at the Justice Palace in Beirut.

Salameh faces allegations of crimes including embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion in separate probes in Lebanon and Europe. His brother Raja and his associate Hoayek are accused of complicity.

The Lebanese Forces on Thursday said that it knows that “the election of the president can only occur through consensus.”

“But Hezbollah is asking us to choose between its candidate and vacuum, and we will maintain our stance until they back down from their stance,” LF spokesman Charles Jabbour told al-Jadeed TV.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat asked which Arab or international side would secure a safe return to the Syrian refugees, and if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wants them back.

In an interview with MTV, Jumblat urged for the establishment of "decent camps" for the displaced Syrians in Lebanon.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday tasked acting General Security chief Brig. Gen. Elias Baissari with following up on the issue of returning the displaced Syrians to their country.

In the memo sent to Baissari, Mikati said that his decision is related to the ministerial meeting that was held on Wednesday, in which it was decided to take stricter measures in the file.

The Free Patriotic Movement on Thursday stressed that its chief Jebran Bassil does not have “any role or link to the Beirut port deal,” denying accusations in this regard by Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh.

“How can this happen in a ministry and file that the FPM has nothing to do with at all, and accordingly what can be hoped from a presidential candidate who launches false accusations against his political rivals other than his reinforcement of the impunity policy?” the FPM said in a statement.