The head of Hizbullah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammed Raad warned Sunday that the “strong” parties would control the country should chaos prevail.

“Some want to implicate the Resistance is something it does not want, but it wants to practice a positive role so that the country does not collapse over the heads of everyone,” Raad said.

Anti-corruption protesters on Sunday scuffled with the guards of the house of caretaker Telecom Minister Mohammed Choucair in Beirut’s Hamra area.

Protesters said the guards beat up a number of young men who tried to enter the building.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday warned against “the exclusion or marginalization of any main component in Lebanon,” amid ongoing negotiations to form a new government.

“Lebanon cannot be ruled through hegemony, confrontation or a one-sided government,” al-Rahi cautioned in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, head of the Free Patriotic Movement on Saturday said “we must action” if the parties responsible to control “suspicious” capital flight failed to uncover the involved.

A group of protesters on Saturday stormed some banks in Beirut to protest against undeclared capital control measures, amid an unprecedented economic crisis and nationwide protests gripping the country.

Dozens of angry activists stormed a bank saying one of their friends was not allowed to cash a cheque due to the control measures.

Naming of Lebanon’s new PM-designate Hassan Diab did not receive Arab and Gulf consent who consider Diab “affiliated” to the March 8 camp, “endorsed” by Hizbullah and “close” to Syrian President Bashar Asaad, Nidaa al-Watan daily reported on Saturday.

France on Friday called for the formation of an “effective government” in Lebanon that can take “swift decisions.”

“Since December 19, the International Support Group for Lebanon, which convened in Paris, has highlighted the need to form a new government to implement all the measures and reforms in Lebanon, especially those pertaining to the economic affairs,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement.

An unidentified object carrying Hebrew writings was discovered Friday on the shore of the Lebanese region of Naameh south of Beirut, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

“It washed up to the shore as a result of the strong storm that is lashing Lebanon,” NNA said.

The new government will be formed in 2020, a source close to President Michel Aoun said Friday, shortly after a meeting between the President and Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab.

“The names are not ready until the moment,” the source told Turkey’s official news agency Anadolu.

Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Friday signed decrees promoting armed forces officers.

A statement issued by Hariri’s office said he signed “all the decrees on the promotion of officers as sent to him by the Army Command.”