A son of Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi is suffering deteriorating health during the second week of a hunger strike to protest his detention in Beirut without trial, his lawyer said Friday.

Hannibal Gadhafi is only drinking small amounts of water, his lawyer Paul Romanos said, adding that his client is suffering from weakness and muscle pains.

France is still clinging to its presidential initiative for Lebanon and will work on “re-floating it based on the results of the latest electoral session,” high-ranking sources said.

The results “showed that (Suleiman) Franjieh is immunized by a firm camp that is dealing seriously with his nomination in the face of an opposition camp whose disunity and non-intersection over a single objective have shown,” the sources told al-Akhbar newspaper, in remarks published Friday.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab on Friday warned that a presidential understanding would need “dialogue” and that “the country cannot withstand three more months” of vacuum.

“I urged Speaker Berri to begin considering early parliamentary elections should the current parliament fail to elect a president,” Bou Saab said after meeting Berri.

The MPs of the opposition forces have announced that ex-minister Jihad Azour remains their presidential candidate, in the wake of a 12th electoral session that failed to produce a new president.

“The electoral session has proven, without doubt, that the vast majority of the Lebanese people’s representatives clearly reject the candidate imposed by the (Axis of) Defiance camp, seeing as despite the rallying efforts and all the pressures that were exerted in the past days, he only managed to get 51 votes, in the face of 77 MPs who voted against this nomination, among whom 59 voted for the centrist candidate Jihad Azour,” 31 opposition MPs said in a statement.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that he will await the outcome of the current regional and international efforts before calling for a new presidential election session.

“Lebanon is present on the agenda of most meetings,” Berri said in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, noting that Wednesday’s election session has proved that there should be “dialogue and consensus instead of challenge and provocation.”

Taking note of the June 14 botched presidential vote, the International Support Group (ISG) said it regrets that Lebanon has yet to elect a president after 12 inconclusive presidential election sessions.

“After eight months with neither a president nor a fully functioning government, the ISG is deeply concerned that the current political stalemate is exacerbating the erosion of state institutions and undermining Lebanon’s ability to address the country’s pressing socioeconomic, financial, security and humanitarian challenges,” the ISG said in a statement.

A federal judge in Argentina has called on Interpol to detain four Lebanese citizens, so they can be questioned for their suspected role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed 85 people.

"Regarding these individuals, there are well-founded suspicions that they are collaborators or operational agents of the … armed wing of Hezbollah," judge Daniel Rafecas wrote in a resolution dated June 13 that the Associated Press obtained Thursday.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari met Thursday with French presidential adviser Patrick Durel to discuss the Lebanese presidential file, TV networks said.

Media reports published Thursday had said that “the French are pushing for an urgent settlement for the Lebanese file,” a day after a 12th presidential election session failed to produce a new president.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said overnight that “Lebanon cannot continue with the current state structure if we want to have an active, unified and inclusive Lebanese state.”

Geagea was responding to an LBCI question about the “solution” after Lebanon’s repeated presidential election crises and whether there is a “major problem in the system and in the structure of this state.”

Bkerki is dismayed at the loss of quorum in the second round of Wednesday's presidential election session, Nidaa al-Watan reported Thursday.

Bkerki's sources blamed the deputies who obstructed the second round of vote, especially the Christian MPs, the daily said.