Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam is seeking to form a cabinet that doesn't include the March 8 alliance, media reports said on Friday.

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper, consultations with the March 8 coalition failed to reach any fruitful results as both sides are holding on to their stances.

The parliamentary session set to be held on May 15 is expected to deepen the rift between the parties if lawmakers were called to vote on the so-called Orthodox Gathering proposal.

An Nahar newspaper reported on Thursday that al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat's National Struggle Front, the March 14 Independent Christian MPs and Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati would boycott the session if it aimed at voting on the proposal.

Head of the Mustaqbal bloc MP Fouad Saniora slammed on Wednesday Hizbullah's fighting in Syria alongside regime forces, saying that those seeking to avert the repercussions of the crisis should not send their youth to fight in the country.

He therefore urged President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, caretaker Premier Najib Miqati, Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam, and all political leaders and MPs to realize the dangers facing Lebanon.

The March 14 General Secretariat renewed on Wednesday its condemnation of Hizbullah's involvement in the unrest in Syria, calling on it to withdraw its members from the country.

It urged in a statement “President Michel Suleiman, seeing as he is the guardian of the constitution, to refer in a letter the Baabda Declaration to parliament where it can be endorsed by lawmakers in order to keep Lebanon away from regional crises.”

The new cabinet is not likely to witness light before mid-May over the insistence of Shiite leaderships to name the sect's ministers in addition to another request for veto power by the Hizbullah-led March 8 alliance, An Nahar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to An Nahar, the coalition has conditioned a 45 percent of seats in the government similar to its weight in parliament and has rejected the rotation of portfolios that Premier-designate Tammam Salam had suggested.

Beirut Maronite Bishop Boulos Matar has been tasked by Bkirki to promote a hybrid electoral plan that was previously proposed by President Michel Suleiman, An Nahar newspaper reported on Wednesday despite the clergyman's denial.

An Nahar said that the proposal allows 68 candidates to be elected under the winner-takes-all system in 26 electoral districts and 60 via proportional representation in 11 districts.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, who is currently abroad, dispatched on Tuesday Beirut Bishop Boulos Matar to President Michel Suleiman, al-Mustaqbal bloc leader Fouad Saniora and caretaker Minister Wael Abou Faour as part of efforts to resolve the elections crisis.

“We discussed the elections and the electoral law that we are looking forward to in Lebanon,” the bishop said after meeting Saniora.

Premier-designate Tammam Salam has rejected an alleged request by Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement to give them veto power in the new government, hinting that they were seeking to paralyze the cabinet before its formation.

In remarks to An Nahar daily published Sunday, Salam criticized the request for veto power, saying “no matter what their excuses are, those demanding it are talking about obstruction even before the formation of the cabinet, which should instead be doing everything it can to benefit the nation.”

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour asked Lebanon's ambassador to the U.N. late Saturday to file an “urgent” complaint with the Security Council over Israel's violations of Lebanese airspace.

A statement said that Mansour asked Nawwaf Salam to submit the complaint against Israel “over its flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and related international resolutions mainly resolution 1701.”

President Michel Suleiman called on the Lebanese on Saturday to abide by the Baabda declaration, expressing hope that the abducted men and the Syrian refugees would be able to return to their home soon.

“The Lebanese should abide by the Baabda declaration and refrain from sending arms and fighters to Syria to maintain civil peace and stability,” Suleiman said in his Orthodox Easter message.