Speaker Nabih Berri slammed reports claiming that the agreement to elect MP Michel Aoun was a hundred percent Lebanese decision and said that it was “probably” the result of an Amercian-Iranian settlement,” al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.

Berri told the daily that the agreement was definitely not a result of an understanding among the Lebanese parties, “it was probably the result of an Amercian-Iranian settlement,” he said.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi called Sunday on the political blocs to “speed up the formation of the new government” after the election of a new president on Monday.

MP Oqab Saqr, who is close to al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri, will arrive in Lebanon on Monday from his self-imposed exile to take part in the presidential election session, LBCI television reported Sunday.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement was on Sunday holding an internal vote across Lebanon to elect delegates to the movement's general conference that will be held on November 26 and 27.

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh's call for the blocs that support him to cast blank votes in Monday's presidential election session might create a 40-member opposition bloc consisted of the MPs who resort to this choice, a media report said on Sunday.

Hizbullah has tasked Speaker Nabih Berri with negotiating over the line-up of the new government on behalf of the March 8 forces, a media report said on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia will invite Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun to visit the kingdom on an official visit after his election on Monday as a new president for Lebanon, a media report said on Sunday.

Lebanon's parliament is set to end more than two years of stalemate on Monday by electing a new president for a non-renewable six-year term.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader Saad Hariri urged everyone to cooperate for the well interest of Lebanon, pointing to a new leaf that will be opened on Monday after the election of a head of state to fill the longtime vacuum.

“The country is on the threshold of a new phase, and I hope that everyone cooperates for the well interest of Lebanon and the Lebanese,” said Hariri after meeting Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam received in separate meetings at the Grand Serail on Saturday Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh and Mustaqbal Movement chief Saad Hariri.

Hariri briefed Salam on the preparations for the electoral session scheduled for Monday to elect a president.