President Michel Suleiman is mulling a legal measure to exercise his authorities as acting head of state if MPs failed to elect a new president by May 25, reports said Monday.

According to al-Akhbar newspaper, Suleiman asked Shadi Karam, one of his advisers, to draft a clause that would allow him to stay in power.

Speaker Nabih Berri threatened on Monday to suspend the tripartite meetings held at al-Naqoura crossing between the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon and senior Lebanese and Israeli officials if the Jewish state continues violating the country's sovereignty.

“Those who are keen to safeguard Lebanon's sovereignty and independence and those who are in a hurry to get rid of the resistance should take into consideration first the Israeli violations,” Berri said in remarks published in As Safir newspaper.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said Bkirki would not enter into a direct confrontation with any political party over the presidential deadlock although it would have harsh words against those paralyzing the elections.

In an interview with el-Shark daily published on Monday, Geagea said: “Bkirki does not play the role of a political party and does not put itself in a confrontation with any party.”

The army arrested this week in the Bekaa border town of Arsal 15 Syrian citizens on charges of illegal entry into the country and involvement in security-linked cases.

“Over the past three days, the Lebanese Army apprehended in the town of Arsal 15 Syrians, some of whom had entered Lebanon illegally and others are involved in security-linked cases,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday blamed the presidential vacuum that has started to loom on the horizon on “those who are seeking it and those who might cause it,” rejecting what he described as a “maneuver.”

“We warn of the consequences of presidential vacuum and those seeking it or causing it will bear a historic responsibility,” al-Rahi said during Sunday's mass in Harissa.

A foreign domestic worker attempted suicide Sunday by throwing herself off the seventh floor of a building on the Hadi Nasrallah Street in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Al-Jadeed television said “medics and security forces immediately arrived on the scene.”

Hizbullah on Sunday stressed that the country's new president must be “in harmony with the resistance,” accusing the March 14 camp of seeking presidential vacuum through fielding a “provocative” candidate.

“We insist on and cling to a president who would be entrusted with the national principles, interests and achievements, contrary to the March 14 camp, which is awaiting a chance to turn against the domestic political equations,” deputy head of Hizbullah's executive council Sheikh Nabil Qaouq said at a memorial service in the southern town of Kafra.

The Mustaqbal Movement and Lebanese Forces held a meeting on Friday to discuss the latest developments linked to the presidential elections, agreeing that Hizbullah is adopting policies “that do not favor Lebanon's interests,” reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

It said that the meeting between Mustaqbal and LF officials, in the presence of an unnamed major political figure, concluded that Hizbullah is attempting to impose its candidate or vacuum in the presidency through the ongoing obstruction of quorum at parliament.

Kataeb Party chief Amin Gemayel stressed that contacts between various political leaderships is necessary in order to stage the presidential elections, reported the daily al-Mustaqbal on Sunday.

He praised to the daily Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea's recent “positive” proposal to withdraw his candidacy from the presidential elections if a deal was reached to back the candidacy of another March 14 alliance member.

Spokesperson for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Marten Youssef defended the tribunal's summons of two Lebanese journalists and two media organizations on charges of contempt for interfering with the administration of justice, saying that legal measures should be taken against the publication of secret affairs linked to trials, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

He told the daily that the contempt case is not aimed at silencing the Lebanese media, but protecting the witnesses in the case.