Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement jointly called Wednesday for a speedy government formation, in a statement issued after their first dialogue session following the election of Michel Aoun as president.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri held talks Wednesday evening at the Center House with Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Wednesday congratulated Donald Trump on his election as the 45th president of the United States, urging him to “advance the cause of peace” and find a “peaceful political solution to the Syrian crisis.”

President Michel Aoun announced Wednesday that Lebanon will no longer be “a laboratory for experiments,” nine days after he was elected as the country's 13th president.

Several Lebanese officials took to Twitter on Wednesday to comment on Donald Trump's shock win in the U.S. presidential election.

Speaker Nabih Berri announced during his weekly meeting with lawmakers on Wednesday that the dispute over who should get the finance ministerial portfolio "can be resolved."

The Military Court of Appeals on Wednesday approved the release of Sheikh Bassam al-Tarras from prison, state-run National News Agency reported.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil announced, during a joint press conference with his Cypriot and Greek counterparts on Wednesday, that meetings on education, tourism, and friendship in Cyprus and Greece have been agreed.

“We are concerned with finding stable and promising investment climates," Bassil said following his meeting with Ministers Ioannis Kasoulides and Nikos Kotzias.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea assured on Wednesday that the Christian political parties will not be the ones who will hamper the formation of the new government, and that civil war will not erupt if the LF were not given the finance portfolio.

“The finance ministry portfolio is paramount in the government. There is a team in the Lebanese Forces that has been preparing for it more than any other portfolio, but there will be no civil war if we do not get it. I don't adhere to anything. The Christians will not be the ones who make the obstacles,” stressed Geagea in an interview to An Nahar daily.

The most difficult task facing PM-designate Saad Hariri in forming a new cabinet, is the agreement with the Lebanese Forces and Speaker Nabih Berri on the portfolios that will be allotted to their parties, As Safir daily reported on Wednesday.

Prominent Free Patriotic Movement sources told the daily that whenever an agreement was reached with the LF and Berri on their share in the government, “and when that happens, the General (President Michel Aoun) will facilitate Hariri's mission to complete the construction of the government because it is in the interest of the new term to accelerate the formation so it does not lose the presidential elections glow.”