Former Prime Minister Fouad Saniora expressed on Tuesday his support for ex-PM Saad Hariri in a statement on social media.

"I am with you despite your decision and with you in spite of them," Saniora declared, calling Hariri "Brother Saad."

Cabinet convened Tuesday at the Grand Serail to study the draft law of the 2022 state budget, in a second consecutive session.

The session was chaired by Prime Minister Najib Miqati and attended by the ministers except Justice Minister Henry Khouri who is abroad.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat said Monday that "the country was orphaned today," after former Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his withdrawal from politics.

"Mukhtara is sad and lonely," he added in a tweet, to which he added photos of the small Chouf town covered in snow.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri announced Monday the “suspension” of his role in political life and confirmed that neither him nor his political movement would run in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib said Monday that studying the Kuwaiti paper will start today.

"It will be ready by Saturday," Bou Habib affirmed from Baabda, after meeting with President Michel Aoun.

Cabinet on Monday approved granting transport compensations to the members of the armed forces, set at a monthly sum of LBP 1.2 million for every serviceman.

There will be “no new taxes” in the 2022 state budget, “contrary to what is being rumored,” Finance Minister Youssef Khalil said after Monday’s Cabinet session.

Cabinet convened on Monday, at the Baabda Palace, for the first time since October.

President Michel Aoun presided over the session, after having met with Prime Minister Najib Miqati.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri on Sunday addressed crowds that flocked to the Center House from Akkar to express their rejection of his likely boycott of the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement on Sunday condemned verbal attacks on Saudi Arabia, after social media videos showed supporters of ex-PM Saad Hariri shouting insults against the kingdom during a solidarity rally outside the Center House.