Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat hosted a dinner banquet in honor of Prime Minister Tammam Salam, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.

Thursday's dinner banquet comes in light of Salam's decision to resume cabinet sessions after two-week break.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat reiterated on Thursday that his party backs the Syrian revolution against the terrorist regime of President Bashar Assad after receiving threats from a Jordanian writer.

“The PSP holds onto its stable stance in support of the Syrian revolution against the regime of terror, murder and threat against the Syrian people,” Jumblat said in a statement, which he issued a day after al-Akhbar newspaper said the writer had threatened the lawmaker.

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat blamed the vacuum at Baabda Palace on the differences among Christian leaders and ruled out a deal between Iran and Arab countries to bring about a compromise candidate.

“Internal Byzantine differences are making us incapable of electing a president,” Jumblat told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in an interview published on Wednesday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed on Friday that all political powers share the same responsibility to prevent the country from slipping into the chaos surrounding it.

“We share a common obligation to prevent” a fate similar to countries in the region, Jumblat said in a speech at the Druze Spiritual Council.

Lebanon is regularly ranked one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but the health minister is breaking taboos with an unprecedented campaign targeting everything from spoiled food to bribery.

From rat-infested grain silos to rotten meat for sale in supermarkets, barely a day has passed in the last four months without news of a horror story uncovered by Wael Abou Faour.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat hit back on Tuesday at Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who said that people should not differentiate between the extremist al-Nusra Front and Islamic State groups.

He said via Twitter: “As long as there remains a single Syrian fighting the terrorist regime of Bashar Assad, then I support that Syrian.”

Prime Minister Tammam Salam has said the region's conditions compel the Lebanese to elect a centrist president and stressed that the cabinet sessions would remain suspended pending an agreement on a productive work mechanism

Salam told two local dailies in interviews published on Monday that the international community had given up on its mission to resolve Lebanon's president crisis.

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat has said it was important for Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal movement to stick to their dialogue to resolve several issues.

“What's important is for the dialogue between al-Mustaqbal and Hizbullah to continue,” said Jumblat in remarks published in As Safir daily on Monday.

Lebanon marks on Saturday the tenth anniversary of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated on February 14, 2005.

“They killed you, but they will never be able to kill your legacy,” Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea tweeted via his account on Twitter.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that he backed a proposal made by Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat to give Lebanon's presidential elections a wider patriotic aspect rather than limiting its discussion to Christians.

But in remarks published in several local newspapers on Monday, Berri stressed that no solution was looming in the horizon on the presidential deadlock.