An unprecedented move made by President Michel Aoun when he asked Prime Minister Saad Hariri to lead the cabinet session at the Presidential Palace, triggered a war of words on Twitter between Hariri and former PM Najib Miqati over the “constitutionality” of the gesture, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

During a cabinet meeting chaired by Aoun at Baabda Palace on Thursday, Aoun had to leave to attend a celebration marking the 66th anniversary of the Lebanese University. He asked Hariri to take his place and preside over the session without adjourning it, said the daily.

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh announced Thursday that President Michel Aoun is still in the Hizbullah-led March 8 camp while noting that “the new presidential tenure has not achieved anything until the moment.”

Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem announced Thursday that “everyone would win” should a new electoral law be approved, urging the political parties to double their efforts in this regard.

Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc noted Thursday that an electoral system based on full proportional representation would cater to the interests of all parties in the country.

Eleven men including Lebanese nationals have been indicted in the case of the deaths of 71 migrants who suffocated in the back of a refrigerated truck in 2015, Hungarian authorities said Thursday.

Four people have been arrested on Beirut's Hamra Street on charges of receiving money transfers on behalf of “one of the most notorious drug kingpins in the Bekaa region,” the army said on Thursday.

The government on Thursday decided during a cabinet session to reactivate the ministerial panel that is tasked with devising a new electoral law, as Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced that Lebanon is “on the verge of a comprehensive and major solution.”

President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri inked on Thursday the first law allowing expatriates to regain the Lebanese nationality.

The two men signed the law during the 4th Lebanese Diaspora Energy conference held at BIEL.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq stressed on Thursday that vacuum at Lebanon's legislative authority is “forbidden by a regional and international decision,” al-Akhbar daily reported on Thursday.

“An international and regional decision forbids vacuum at the legislative authority,” the daily quoted the Minister as saying.

The Kataeb party deplored the political parties' failure to agree on a new electoral law, saying the hurdles obstructing the process are a result of conflicts between authority partners on the size of their sects' representation in the new parliament, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

“The party refuses any attempt to change the nature of the current problem in Lebanon," Kataeb sources told the daily.