Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea accused Monday the Free Patriotic Movement and the Hezbollah-led camp of obstructing the municipal polls.

"it's getting harder for them, the FPM's popular support is not at its best," Geagea said, adding that millions of dollars had been spent from the Special Drawing Rights and that the elections can also be funded.

A Qatari delegation, headed by the minister of state at the Qatari Foreign Ministry Mohammed Abdel Aziz al-Khulaifi, met Monday with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri over the presidential file.

Al-Khulaifi arrived in Lebanon on Sunday night to discuss the presidential deadlock with the Lebanese leaders.

Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced Monday that municipal elections will take place on time.

"We are ready to hold the municipal elections, and we will issue the necessary circulars," Mawlawi said, adding that he is forced by law to hold the elections and that he is convinced that these elections must be held on time.

Domestic, regional and international talks over the Lebanese file have intensified lately, Amal MP Qassem Hashem said.

The MP added that Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is awaiting the outcome of these contacts to act accordingly.

Major General Aroldo Lázaro, Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), chaired a regular Tripartite meeting at a U.N. position in Ras al-Naqoura on Thursday.

On a visit to Lebanon on Thursday, Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič, announced €60 million in humanitarian aid for the most vulnerable people in the country, including Syrian refugees and Lebanese people in need. The Commissioner is visiting EU-funded humanitarian projects and meeting humanitarian partners on the ground as well as the Lebanese authorities.

The funding comes as Lebanon’s population is facing increasing poverty levels, food insecurity, and disease outbreaks. An estimated four million people need humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs, the European Commission said in a statement.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati will call next week for a cabinet session, his advisor said Thursday.

Cabinet was scheduled to convene last Monday but the session on public sector wages was postponed, after the government said last week that it will delay the start of daylight saving time by a month until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday said that “the issue of the municipal elections has become totally in the hands of the government.”

Caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamieh scrapped a deal for a second terminal at Beirut's international airport, after critics raised transparency concerns in the $122 million project.

"Based on a Hezbollah request, I bravely announce that the contract will not be implemented, as if it's null and void," Hamieh said, shortly before the parliamentary public works committee convened.

Protesters, including retired soldiers, rallied Thursday at Riad al-Solh's square, facing the Grand Serail, to demand better pay as public sector employees start this month withdrawing their salaries at the LL90,000 Sayrafa rate.

The protesters tried again to break through the fence leading to the Grand Serail.