President Michel Aoun wants the national dialogue conference to be held before the end of the month should his upcoming bilateral meetings manage to convince a number of parties, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.

As of Tuesday, the President will hold separate meetings with a representative of the Development and Liberation bloc, Loyalty to Resistance bloc head MP Mohammed Raad, Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh, Mount Lebanon Guarantee bloc head MP Talal Arslan and Tashnag bloc chief MP Hagop Pakradounian, the daily quoted informed sources in Baabda as saying.

Free Patriotic Movement MP Asaad Dergham said that “Amal and Hizbullah are committing a crime against the Lebanese.”

Dergham stated, on al-Jadeed TV, that the Cabinet not convening is a “crime.”

“The Cabinet won’t convene anytime soon,” Shiite Duo sources said, adding that the statement Prime Minister Najib Miqati made from Baabda about an imminent Cabinet session is “only a wish.”

The Duo sources told Nidaa al-Watan newspaper, in remarks published Monday, that Miqati will not call for a Cabinet session without the Shiite approval, and “no consensus has been reached yet.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati arrived Monday in Egypt, on an official visit.

He participated in the fourth edition of the World Youth Forum, held in Sharm El-Sheikh under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati is “determined” to call for a Cabinet session dedicated to discussing the 2022 draft state budget, which should be finalized by the Finance Ministry in the coming days, a media report said on Sunday.

Marwan Habib, a 32-year-old Lebanese man who faced dozens of sexual harassment and assault allegations in Lebanon, has been arrested in the U.S. for breaking into a woman's Miami Beach hotel room and assaulting her.

Lebanon's state electricity company says that its power plants have stopped working after protesters stormed a key substation and tampered with the electrical equipment.

Hundreds of people have rallied in Beirut to protest measures imposed against the unvaccinated, saying individuals should have the right to decide whether to be inoculated or not.

Vaccination is not compulsory in Lebanon, but in recent days authorities have cracked down on people who are not inoculated or don't carry a negative PCR test.

Contacts are still ongoing between Free Patriotic Movement head Jebran Bassil and Hizbullah secretary-general’s aide Hussein Khalil as well as between ex-minister Ali Hassan Khalil and PM Najib Miqati in a bid to reach a solution for the government paralysis crisis, ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Saturday.

President Michel Aoun held talks Friday afternoon in Baabda with Prime Minister Najib Miqati.

Speaking after the talks, Miqati said Aoun requested the meeting to discuss his call for holding a national dialogue conference.