Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri held separate talks Tuesday at the Center House with representatives of Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and Speaker Nabih Berri.

Hariri's talks with Health Minister Wael Abou Faour, who is close to Jumblat, tackled “the current developments in the country,” Hariri's press office said in a statement.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed Tuesday that the members of his Democratic Gathering parliamentary bloc are not “sheep.”

Speaker Nabih Berri's aide and Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil confirmed Tuesday that Berri's Development and Liberation bloc would “vote against” Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun in any presidential election session.

The parliament on Tuesday renewed the terms of the members of the Parliament Bureau and the parliamentary committees as it accepted the resignation of Tripoli MP Robert Fadel.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday scheduled a legislative session for Wednesday amid reservations by the Lebanese Forces over the issue of the electoral law.

The army on Tuesday arrested a senior official of the jihadist al-Nusra Front group in an ambush in the eastern border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq reiterated Tuesday that a new president will be elected before the end of 2016, stressing that al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri is the one who would declare the name of Mustaqbal's presidential candidate in the name of the Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc.

An official from the Hizbullah-led March 8 camp has ruled out the imminent election of a president despite the latest optimism that followed the return of ex-PM Saad Hariri to Lebanon.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has reassured his ally Speaker Nabih Berri that the March 8 camp does not consider itself to be part of the alleged agreements that were reached by Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil and ex-PM Saad Hariri's adviser Nader Hariri during their latest meetings, a media report said on Tuesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri has accused Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun and al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri of seeking to “topple political Shiism” in Lebanon, warning that such an attempt might lead to a “civil war” in the country, a media report said on Tuesday.