President Michel Aoun’s adviser ex-minister Salim Jreissati on Monday snapped back at Deputy Speaker Elie Ferzli after the latter suggested handing power in Lebanon to the army for a transitional period.

“Reduce your exaggeration and do not entangle the army in what it has no relation,” Jreissati said in a statement.

The Higher Judicial Council on Monday held an emergency meeting to discuss the latest judicial developments in the country pertaining to the actions of controversial Mount Lebanon Attorney General Judge Ghada Aoun.

In a statement, the conferees said they re-confirmed the decision to summon Aoun for interrogation at 10:00 am Tuesday.

State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat on Monday asked Financial Prosecutor Ali Ibrahim to launch investigations over suspected violations by the Mecattaf money exchange firm, amid controversy over Mt. Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun’s raids on the company’s offices.

The National News Agency said Oueidat asked Ibrahim to determine whether the firm has “breached the regulations that govern the work of money shipping companies, especially Decree 10726, which is related to amending the main decree no. 8024 (11/1/2002).”

The Higher Judicial Council convened on Monday to discuss its position on the latest actions of Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun, with insistence on taking disciplinary measures against her, media reports said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab discussed the latest developments with Qatari officials during a meeting at his residence in Doha, media reports said on Monday.

Attention turns today to the meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels, to see if the Union will resort to implementing its threat and announce sanctions on Lebanese officials it blames for obstructing the formation of a government, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday reiterated his call for the formation of a “government of nonpartisan specialists.”

“Without the formation of a government of nonpartisan specialists in which no party has hegemony, it will be absurd for officials to continue to talk about rescue, reform, fighting corruption, forensic audit, defense strategy and national reconciliation,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil on Sunday lashed out at what he called the “corrupt system.”

“Usually, in corrupt nations, the people revolt against oppressive regimes, topple them and recover their stolen rights, whereas here the corrupt system has staged a coup against the people and seized their money and is now preparing to stage a coup against the state’s assets and existence,” Bassil said in a tweet.

Hizbullah party is reportedly making preparations in anticipation of the “complete collapse” of Lebanon’s faltering economy, media reports said on Saturday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri concluded his visit to Russia Friday by meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow, Hariri’s press office said in a statement.