Azour reportedly met al-Rahi and Khalil on 4 day visit to Lebanon

Former minister Jihad Azour has met Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi and Amal MP Ali Hassan Khalil, on a four-day visit to Lebanon, MTV said Tuesday.

Azour also met former Democratic Gathering bloc MP Nehme Tohme, the media outlet reported.

Azour is an intersection presidential candidate between the opposition MPs and the Free Patriotic Movement. He has stepped aside from his role as the director of the Middle East and Central Asia department at the International Monetary Fund in view of the presidential contest.

Azour, who served as Lebanon's finance minister from 2005 to 2008, failed to get across the line in the last presidential election session, as he garnered 59 votes while Hezbollah's candidate Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh garnered 51 in the 128-seat parliament.

Azour has the backing of the country's largest Christian political parties -- the Free Patriotic Movement, which has been allied with Hezbollah since 2006, and the Lebanese Forces party. He is also backed by the majority of Druze legislators and some Sunni Muslims.