On March 14, that marks the date of the anti-Syrian 2005 Cedar Revolution, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea launched the LF's electoral campaign.

"We want and we can" Geagea said, urging the Lebanese to vote for the LF, after a series of teasing billboards said that "some can but don't want to," and "some want to but can't."

Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit urged Monday the international community to support Lebanon.

He mentioned, after a meeting with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace, the world's "double standards" in dealing with the Ukrainian crisis and with the Lebanese crisis.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday reiterated his call for the return of the displaced Syrians to their country.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday ruled out the possible postponement of the May 15 parliamentary elections.

“In every moment they are trying to postpone or torpedo the elections, using many ways, including the megacenters proposal, which was not approved in Cabinet. But this does not mean that they have given up and their attempts will continue in a daily manner to postpone this juncture,” Geagea said during the announcement of the LF’s candidates for the Jezzine area.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil stressed Sunday that “victory over the enemy is not achieved through arms exclusively.”

“I’m with a solution for the sea border that would preserve our right to underwater gas,” Bassil said at the FPM’s seventh annual conference.

Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh has criticized what he described as the “idiotic thinking” of “Christian officials.”

“The enemy today is idiotic thinking,” Franjieh said during a meeting with Marada’s engineers bureau.

Ex-PM Saad Hariri on Thursday lashed out at Hizbullah for “protecting the criminals,” after the Special Tribunal for Lebanon reversed the acquittals of Hizbullah operatives Hassan Merhi and Hussein Oneissi in the case of Rafik Hariri’s assassination.

“Ex-PM Saad Hariri renews his full confidence and complete commitment to what the Special Tribunal for Lebanon issues in the case of the assassination of martyr premier Rafik Hariri and his companions as well as in the connected cases,” his press office said in a statement.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Thursday issued travel bans against the chairmen of five Lebanese banks in connection with a financial corruption complaint, the state-run National News Agency said.

NNA identified the five chairmen as Salim Sfeir of Bank of Beirut, Samir Hanna of Bank Audi, Antoine Sehnaoui of SGBL, Saad al-Azhari of BLOM Bank and Rayya al-Hassan of BankMed.

Cabinet agreed Thursday to drop a controversial plan for setting up voting megacenters for the May 15 parliamentary polls, as it took note of the appointment of Ziad Makari of the Marada Movement as a successor to resigned information minister George Kordahi.

The conferees, however, agreed that it is necessary to implement the megacenters plan in the 2026 elections.

Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc on Thursday stressed the need to hold the May 15 parliamentary elections on time, while stressing that the voting megacenters plan is a “required and landmark step.”

In a statement issued after its weekly meeting, the bloc said it “categorically rejects any postponement of the parliamentary elections under any excuse.”