Bkirki is reportedly witnessing intensive visits by Maronite leaders to resolve the presidential deadlock and salvage the Christians' most prominent post, regaining its political role, media reports said on Friday.

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper, the endeavors carried out by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi are backed by the Vatican, France and several European counties.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized on Wednesday the ongoing vacuum in the presidency, slamming Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun's approach towards the polls.

He said: “We call for waging the presidential elections battle at parliament or reaching an understanding, without preconditions, with the FPM.”

The four Maronite leaders held separate talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, away from the media spotlight, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper reported that talks focused on the conditions of Christians and the presidential deadlock.

An inter-Christian dialogue kicked off recently to bridge the gap between the rival parties, in particular, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces.

Ad Diyar newspaper reported on Tuesday that Maronite General Council Chairman former Minister Wadih Khazen is carrying indirect contacts between FPM chief Michel Aoun and LF leader Samir Geagea to reach common grounds on controversial issues, especially the presidential elections.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun has reportedly stressed that he is not concerned with the dialogue that is set to take place between al-Mustaqbal movement and Hizbullah.

Al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Aoun as saying that the talks, which are expected to be held between the rival parties this month, “do not concern him as long as he is not invited.”

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc announced Tuesday that it will “exhaust all available means” to put an end to what it described as a “coup against the Constitution,” after the parliament voted to extend its own term to 2015.

“Obstruction and consensus are two sides of the same coin,” the bloc said in a statement issued after its weekly meeting in Rabieh, slamming alleged “usurpation and monopolization of power by this (parliamentary) majority.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has welcomed a dialogue that is expected to take place between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal movement and considered a proposal made by Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun to end the presidential crisis as “not logical.”

Geagea told As Safir daily published on Tuesday that he is “in principle with any dialogue, in particular between Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon.”

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil stressed on Sunday the importance of electing a new head of state and the drafting of a more democratic and just electoral law.

“Lebanon is in the eye of the storm... Instability in the region and the Syrian conflict have repercussions on our country, which is facing the most dangerous existential threat in its recent history,” Bassil said from Dakar during his statement at the La Francophone summit.

A member of the Constitutional Council described the decision to reject the Free Patriotic Movement's appeal against the extension of parliament's term as “legal, constitutional and national.”

“The term of the parliament ended and the cabinet is not capable of staging the polls,” the member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told An Nahar newspaper published on Sunday.

The Free Patriotic Movement of MP Michel Aoun criticized the Constitutional Council's decision to reject its appeal against the extension of parliament's term, saying that the highest judicial authority in Lebanon has failed, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

Sources from the FPM told the daily: “The decision will not avert vacuum at state institutions.”