Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi lamented on Sunday the state of political affairs in Lebanon after the failure to reach an agreement over a new parliamentary electoral law, accusing political powers of obstructing the functioning of constitutional institutions.

He said during his Sunday sermon from Bkirki: “We cannot accept the extension of the term of parliament for whatever duration if a new electoral law is not devised.”

France condemned on Sunday the blasts that targeted Beirut's suburb of Mar Mikhael, warning against the spread of the Syrian unrest to Lebanon.

He said that France “strongly condemns” the violence that has taken place in Lebanon.

Calm was restored overnight in the northern city of Tripoli, reported the National News Agency Sunday.

It said that calm prevailed over the areas that witnessed clashes over the past week, adding that some intermittent gunfire could be heard.

Syria's main opposition group called Sunday on Hizbullah fighters to defect, as members of Lebanon's party led an assault on al-Qusayr in central Syria and a day after its leader vowed victory.

Hizbullah, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, "repeats Assad's grievous mistake of forcing his people to kill innocent Syrians, which will undoubtedly lead the honorable members of Hizbullah to defect and stand by the truth," said a statement from the Syrian National Coalition.

President Michel Suleiman and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati condemned on Sunday the Mar Mikhael blasts, saying that they are aimed at creating strife in Lebanon.

Suleiman urged in a statement “citizens to exercise the highest levels of diligence to avert strife and maintain national and civil peace.”

Gunmen abducted overnight a citizen in the Bekaa town of Zahle, reported the National News Agency Sunday.

It said that four gunmen kidnapped Butros Salim Attallah at around 2:30 a.m. in front of a nightclub in the area.

Four people were wounded on Sunday morning in a rocket attack on Beirut's southern suburbs.

The Lebanese army said in a statement that a rocket was fired at a car dealership near the Mar Mikhael church and another landed in the Maroun Misk neighborhood.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea urged the caretaker cabinet on Saturday to tackle Hizbullah's involvement in the war in the Syrian border town of al-Qusayr during Monday's session, rejecting attempts to revive the 1960's electoral law.

“Hizbullah's participation in the battles alongside the Syrian regime's forces will bring many miseries into Lebanon,” Geagea warned after meeting with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki.

Al-Mustaqbal Party leader Saad Hariri stated on Saturday that Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah is demanding the recognition of the “State of Hizbullah," considering that the resistance has announced its “suicide" in the Syrian border town of al-Qusayr.

“You have announced yourself the end of the resistance on Liberation's Day,” Hariri addressed Nasrallah in a released statement in which he responded to Hizbullah leader's speech in the commemoration of the liberation of the South earlier on Saturday.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stated Saturday that the resistance will win the battle against the “United States, Israel and the Takfiris just like it emerged victorious in previous wars,” assuring that he will not allow the “breaking of its backbone.”

"I say to all the honourable people, to the mujahedeen, to the heroes: I have always promised you a victory and now I pledge to you a new one in Syria," he said in a speech he gave at a ceremony marking the 13th anniversary of Israel's military withdrawal from southern Lebanon.