Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat will remain in the cabinet and is committed to his alliance with Hizbullah, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

“Although they have different stances regarding the Syrian revolution, Jumblat is committed to his alliance with Hizbullah,” sources close to the PSP leader told the daily.

Lebanese expatriates are waiting for the cabinet decision on the mechanism that would allow them to cast their ballots in the 2013 elections as the session at the Baabda Palace on Wednesday is expected to tackle the issue.

“The cabinet would have to confront the complications that will be caused by the discussions on the mechanism that would enable expats to vote,” ministerial sources told An Nahar on Tuesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri is committed to his suggestion to adopt proportional representation for the electoral law, reported As Safir newspaper on Monday.

To this end, his advisor Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil and that of Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hussein Khalil, are expected to hold talks on Thursday with Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on the electoral law.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat travelled to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, his first to the kingdom since the formation of the government and his joining of the new majority in Lebanon, reported al-Akhbar newspaper on Monday.

March 8 sources did not hide their concern with the visit “given the impact it may have on the political balance in Lebanon since the toppling of former Premier Saad Hariri’s government” in early 2011, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Monday.

President Michel Suleiman stressed on Monday that the majority of the parliament wants the cabinet to remain for several considerations, according to As Safir newspaper.

The vote of confidence revealed that “there’s no intention by anyone to topple the cabinet,” Suleiman told the daily.

The 2013 parliamentary elections cannot be held under a government that was not formed in a democratic manner, a leading opposition figure told the Kuwaiti al-Anba newspaper on Sunday.

It said: “A transitional government must be formed to oversee the elections and prepare the circumstances under which they can be held.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat rejected a proposal made by Speaker Nabih Berri to consider Lebanon a single electoral district in a proportional representation law that would be adopted in the upcoming parliamentary elections and lead to the establishment of a senate.

“Honestly, I am not excited for a senate now because if we want to implement the Taef Accord literally then the formation of the senate is linked to the abolishment of political confessionalism which I don’t think is appropriate for the time being,” Jumblat told As Safir daily published Thursday.

President Michel Suleiman expressed confidence on Thursday that the parties rejecting proportional representation in the parliamentary elections will eventually support it.

“Those publically standing against proportionality today will be with it in the future,” Suleiman told As Safir daily about al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat.

A vote of confidence against Premier Najib Miqati’s government is “out of the question,” Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat said Tuesday.

“We don’t have anything to do with it,” Jumblat, who is a centrist, told As Safir daily about threats by several March 14 opposition lawmakers that they would seek a vote of confidence against the government and mainly Energy Minister Jebran Bassil and Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui.

Premier Najib Miqati told parliament on Tuesday that the government made several achievements and promised to implement other plans despite the disputes among its members.

Miqati stressed at the start of the three-day parliamentary session that he exerted strong efforts to preserve stability by visiting the South and funding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.