A delegation from Hizbullah on Monday visited the headquarters of the Kataeb Party in Beirut's Saifi area to congratulate newly-elected party chief MP Sami Gemayel and the political bureau members.

The delegation was led by Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Ali Fayyad.

Military Examining Magistrate Judge Riyad Abou Ghida issued on Monday an indictment in the case of the beating of Islamist inmates at Roumieh prison.

Last month, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged five guards for abusing the prisoners and referred them to Abou Ghida for questioning.

A Lebanese polling and research firm has been tasked with carrying out a survey proposed by the Free Patriotic Movement to help ease the presidential deadlock, al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported on Monday.

Sources told the daily that Statistics Lebanon, which was established in 1994, will ask a sample of 4,600 Christians who their candidate for the presidency is.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam has expressed concern over Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun's threats to mobilize his supporters, saying his move is putting Lebanon's coexistence in danger.

Salam's concern comes despite Speaker Nabih Berri being more optimistic.

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat has said that his only concern was to keep the government functioning to take important decisions and avoid paralysis.

“My main concern is for the cabinet to continue its work to take the necessary decisions and open an extraordinary session for the parliament,” said Jumblat.

The interrogation of a Syrian janitor and the members of his family is still ongoing after he was suspected of involvement in the Saturday abduction of the child Ricardo Imad Jaara, LBCI television reported on Sunday.

The child was nabbed outside his family home in the Jbeil district town of Amchit, LBCI said.

Unknown assailants on Sunday briefly kidnapped two people in the eastern Bekaa region, reported the National News Agency.

The abductees were identified as Hassan Ali Hashish, 27, and Fadi Hamad, 29.

Syrian government forces backed by fighters from Hizbullah entered the town of Zabadani on Sunday in a bid to take the last rebel-held bastion along the Lebanese border.

Syrian state television and Hizbullah's al-Manar station announced the advance into Zabadani on Sunday, a day after a major operation against it began.

Head of the Kataeb Party MP Sami Gemayel proposed on Sunday that Lebanon's constitutional system be reexamined following “90 years of a structure that has only deepened sectarianism and divisions among the Lebanese.”

He called for holding a “national gathering to establish a new Lebanon” after the election of a new president.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam took the decision to schedule a cabinet session immediately after the end of the previous one over his keenness to ensure the productivity of his government, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday.

“He is keen to preserve its productivity regardless of the obstacles,” ministerial sources explained.