Speaker Nabih Berri said that time is not in favor of stalling over reaching an agreement on a new electoral draft-law and pointed out that the momentum witnessed during the municipal elections enhances the chances of adopting a proportional electoral law, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

“Time is not in favor of a standstill with regard to the electoral law. What happened during the municipal elections heightens the momentum towards the adoption of a proportional law, particularly that the polls have shown that no single party can monopolize a specific sect,” visitors to Berri quoted him as saying.

MP Hassan Fadlallah stated after the parliamentary media committee meeting on Tuesday, that the ISF chief Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous has not given the approval yet to question ISF members and officials with regard to the installment of illegal internet equipment.

“The judiciary will question ISF officers and members who were present in their positions close to the locations where the network equipment was installed, but we have not obtained yet the approval of ISF chief on that,” said Fadlallah.

Political official of the al-Jamaa al-Islamiya in the North and Tripoli Ihab Nafeaa submitted his resignation on Tuesday in protest to the outcome of the municipal elections in the northern city, the state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

“Agreements and alliances were formed in the municipal elections in Tripoli which did not live up to the expectations of many in the city,” said Nafeaa in a statement announcing his resignation.

Security precautionary measures were upped lately in the southern suburbs of Beirut six months after the last terror bombing attack that rocked the Bourj al-Barajneh area in November, An Nahar daily reported on Tuesday.

“The terror threats might resume any moment despite the vigilance of the security forces,” sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.

State Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud denied on Tuesday the accusations claiming that the investigations in several judicial issues particularly the illegal internet file are being deliberately delayed, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

He called on those spreading rumors to look closely at the judicial mechanism and at the action of procedures provided by the law.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said that the security apparatuses in Lebanon were able to uncover and thwart schemes by the Islamic State group to carry out terror acts, mainly in crowded areas in Beirut, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Mashnouq said that the security forces are waging the “fiercest battle” against attempts to shake the security situation, and that the army intelligence was able to thwart a plan of a terror act in one of the capital's streets.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag visited the United Arab Emirates on Monday for talks on Lebanon, her office said.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri met in Kuwait on Monday with Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah al-Sabah where talks focused on the developments in Lebanon and the region and Iran's “unacceptable” interference in other countries, Hariri's press office said in a statement.

The meeting was held in the presence of several Kuwaiti officials and Lebanese ex-MPs Bassel al-Sabaa and Ghattas Khoury and Hariri's adviser Nader Hariri.

Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri congratulated on Monday the winners in the North municipal elections and stressed the need for efforts to be put together for the benefit of Tripoli.

“I urge everyone to work for the city's interest. We reiterate our respect for the democratic will of the people of Tripoli who chose their new municipal council,” said Hariri via Twitter.

Democratic Gathering bloc MP Walid Jumblat commented on the initial victory of resigned Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi in the municipal elections in the northern city of Tripoli and said that the lists that faced him in the polls were unsuccessful.

“It seems that the Titanic (in reference to a list backed by the Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri, former Prime Minister Najib Miqati, and former ministers Faisal Karami and Mohammed al-Safadi) that carried strongmen from Baysour and Kfar Matta has arrived in Tripoli to drown there,” said Jumblat via Twitter.