French President Emmanuel Macron's new special envoy for Lebanon heads to Beirut on Wednesday as France seeks a new push to end a political crisis that has left the country without a president for over half a year, a diplomatic source said.

Former foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, appointed by Macron to the role earlier this month, is to fly to Beirut on Wednesday, the source told AFP, asking not to be named.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has suggested that the Hezbollah-led camp “wants to impose the election of Suleiman Franjieh as president, or else it will continue to obstruct the electoral process indefinitely.”

“This camp will not allow electoral sessions in the near future,” Geagea said, in an interview with Lebanon’s French-language daily L'Orient-Le Jour’.

Parliament on Monday approved to open a line of credit to fund public sector salaries in a session boycotted by 29 opposition MPs.

The Free Patriotic Movement attended the session after it said in a statement that it would only attend urgent sessions, while 29 MPs, including independent MPs and MPs from the Lebanese Forces, the Kataeb party and the Tajaddod bloc boycotted the session.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Saturday criticized the MPs who walked out of Wednesday's presidential election session, saying they prevented the electoral process from taking its "constitutional and democratic course."

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab on Friday warned that a presidential understanding would need “dialogue” and that “the country cannot withstand three more months” of vacuum.

“I urged Speaker Berri to begin considering early parliamentary elections should the current parliament fail to elect a president,” Bou Saab said after meeting Berri.

The MPs of the opposition forces have announced that ex-minister Jihad Azour remains their presidential candidate, in the wake of a 12th electoral session that failed to produce a new president.

“The electoral session has proven, without doubt, that the vast majority of the Lebanese people’s representatives clearly reject the candidate imposed by the (Axis of) Defiance camp, seeing as despite the rallying efforts and all the pressures that were exerted in the past days, he only managed to get 51 votes, in the face of 77 MPs who voted against this nomination, among whom 59 voted for the centrist candidate Jihad Azour,” 31 opposition MPs said in a statement.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that he will await the outcome of the current regional and international efforts before calling for a new presidential election session.

“Lebanon is present on the agenda of most meetings,” Berri said in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, noting that Wednesday’s election session has proved that there should be “dialogue and consensus instead of challenge and provocation.”

Taking note of the June 14 botched presidential vote, the International Support Group (ISG) said it regrets that Lebanon has yet to elect a president after 12 inconclusive presidential election sessions.

“After eight months with neither a president nor a fully functioning government, the ISG is deeply concerned that the current political stalemate is exacerbating the erosion of state institutions and undermining Lebanon’s ability to address the country’s pressing socioeconomic, financial, security and humanitarian challenges,” the ISG said in a statement.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said overnight that “Lebanon cannot continue with the current state structure if we want to have an active, unified and inclusive Lebanese state.”

Geagea was responding to an LBCI question about the “solution” after Lebanon’s repeated presidential election crises and whether there is a “major problem in the system and in the structure of this state.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has called dialogue “without preconditions” regarding the presidential crisis, hours after a 12th presidential election session failed to produce a new president.

“The session proved that no one can bypass the Christian component as to the presidency, that no one can impose a president on anyone, and that the FPM is committed and only follows its beliefs,” Bassil tweeted.