Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh held talks overnight with Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri on the latest developments in Lebanon, most notably the presidential vacuum.

Franjieh revealed to reporters on Sunday that he had told Hariri that he “has no problem” with the Mustaqbal chief voting for Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun as president.

A clash linked to the ongoing municipal polls in the North and Akkar districts erupted in the town of Bourj al-Arab, reported the National News Agency on Sunday.

It said that shots were fired during the dispute.

A verbal dispute broke out in a northern town on Sunday, forcing the temporary halt of the municipal elections, reported various media.

Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) said that the dispute erupted between the heads of two lists running in the Akkar town of Rahbeh.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has urged French President Francois Hollande to exert efforts to end Lebanon's presidential vacuum, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday.

He voiced his willingness to see the election of Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun as president to ensure that the impasse is resolved.

The Internal Security Forces raided on Saturday the house of the murderer of Wissam Bleiq, a member of Beirut's firefighting department, and arrested his two wives in addition to five people who helped him flee to Syria, the ISF said in a statement on Saturday.

Supporters of incumbent municipal chief of Akkar al-Atiqa in the district of Akkar, Khaled al-Bahri, blocked roads on Saturday protesting his decision to resign and withdraw his nomination from the upcoming municipal elections, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The campaigners blocked the road with dirt in front of the polling stations in the Akkar Secondary School.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah emphasized that he will take severe regulatory measures against any of his supporters who fire guns into the air during his speeches, al-Akhbar daily reported on Saturday.

“Don't be surprised if one day you hear that a certain division of Hizbullah has been dissolved because of shooting firearms into the air. The decision will be announced in media outlets,” al-Akhbar quoted Nasrallah as saying.

Fourty-eight hours before the polling stations open in the North and Akkar governorates, Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq followed up on the administrative, security and logistical preparations to ensure a smooth municipal electoral process on Sunday, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

The total number of voters eligible to vote in the governorate of the North is 580,095, while 269,910 voters in the district of Akkar, said the daily.

The producer behind an Australian television program's involvement in a mother's botched child-snatching operation in Lebanon has lost his job, as the show's founder dubbed the debacle "the gravest misadventure in the program's history."

The comment by Australia's "60 Minutes" founder Gerald Stone came amid the release of a damning internal review into the incident, in which the program paid a so-called child recovery agency to snatch an Australian woman's two children back from her estranged Lebanese husband.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq announced on Friday that the municipal elections in the northern town of Torza will be held as scheduled on Sunday.

The minister had previously issued a decree postponing the polls in the Bcharre town.