President Michel Aoun has said that he will leave the Baabda Palace when his presidential term ends in 2022, while noting that he would “stay” if parliament decides that he should stay.

Development and Liberation bloc’s MP Qassem Hashem said that the Shiite duo is still holding the same position concerning boycotting the Cabinet sessions.

“The reasons that resulted in freezing the sessions must be resolved first,” Hashem said in a televised interview.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has accused some parties of seeking to “destroy the judiciary” in order to “bury the probe” into the August 2020 catastrophic explosion at the Port of Beirut.

“The country is floundering under the weight of hunger, medicine prices and hospitalization bills, and there is not a single word about the ration card, nor a signal about reforming electricity, nor a mention of legalizing capital control,” Jumblat said in a tweet.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has announced that he is “against the government’s resignation,” noting that its prime minister Najib Miqati has not let him down.

“I have appreciated his acceptance to head a government in these circumstances, but unfortunately the obstructors have paralyzed the government through illegal means,” al-Rahi added in an interview with LBCI television.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati met Monday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and left Ain el-Tineh without making a statement.

Meanwhile Miqati’s circles said that “he is working in every possible way to resume the Cabinet sessions.”

Scores of protesters blocked major roads across Lebanon on Monday to express anger against the country's political class for the worsening economic crisis and harsh living conditions.

The road closures with burning tires were mainly in the capital Beirut, the northern city of Tripoli, the southern port city of Sidon, the eastern Bekaa valley and the Zouk highway.

President Michel Aoun met Monday with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, who affirmed Qatar’s support for Lebanon and said “Qatar is ready to help Lebanon in all fields,” the Presidency said.

Sheikh Tamim said that the Qatari foreign minister will soon visit Lebanon “to offer aid and support,” the Presidency added.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Sunday noted that “there is no Iranian occupation of Lebanon,” as he lashed out at political rivals and Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lauded the latest decision by the Court of Cassation on the flurry of lawsuits and legal motions that had paralyzed the probe into the catastrophic Beirut port blast.

Hizbullah central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Sunday stressed that his party is supporting efforts aimed at resolving the governmental crisis and resuming Cabinet sessions.