Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday pledged to block “anything sectarian” in the electoral law as he refused the moving of certain seats from one electoral district to another.

Former Prime Minister Najib Miqati said he rejects proposals to reallocate parliamentary seats

President Michel Aoun emphasized on Monday that consultations to reach a new electoral law for the country's parliamentary elections before June 20 have made progress.

President Michel Aoun received French Ambassador Emmanuel Bonne at the Presidential Palace in Baabda who came on a farewell visit ending his two-year service in Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

An elderly man found stabbed to death in the southern city of Tyre was identified as Salman Mohammed Khyami, father of Zayd Khyami, Director General of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

A personal dispute over fireworks that aggravated into an arms fight in the southern Palestinian camp of Ain el-Hilweh left one person injured, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

A personal dispute followed by gun shooting erupted in Hay al-Zainab near the vegetable market in al-Tahtani street inside Ain el-Hilweh, NNA said.

Speaker Nabih Berri emphasized that a proposal to reallocate Maronite seats from Muslim-majority to Christian-majority districts is completely “unacceptable,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

“We can never accept such a proposal and a major questions arises here: What is the purpose of this concept? Winds of division are blowing in the region and here we are amid these atmospheres going for a sectarian separation. This is totally unacceptable,” Berri told the daily.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil announced Sunday that the proportional representation electoral system would “put an end to monopolization inside sects,” adding that the FPM is seeking to become “the third Shiite movement” in the country.

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh warned Sunday against moving certain parliamentary seats across some electoral districts as reportedly demanded by the Free Patriotic Movement-Lebanese Forces alliance.

The security situation in the outskirts of the eastern border town of Arsal has returned to the spotlight after Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's remarks in two consecutive speeches about the need for the evacuation of Syrian militants from the area.