Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri hasn't yet called for a session for electing a new Speaker, but new MPs will have to pick a speaker within 14 days.

Calls and consultations will intensify in the upcoming week, al-Akhbar newspaper said Monday, in an attempt to ease the tension as many blocs announced they wouldn't vote for Berri.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday described the explosion of several economic and financial crises after the elections as a “suspicious development.”

“It was notable and painful that, after the elections results were announced, we witnessed security disturbances and the return of the fuel, bread, medicine, prices and dollar crises,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Fearing visa hassles could cost him his job in Dubai while an economic collapse had dashed any homecoming options, Lebanese executive Jad splurged around $135,000 on a new citizenship for himself and his wife.

Lebanon's "hijacked sovereignty" must be restored after an election denied the powerful Iran-backed Hizbullah a parliamentary majority, said Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.

Speaker Nabih Berri's parliamentary bloc on Saturday officially nominated him for a new term as parliament speaker.

Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and French President Emmanuel Macron have reiterated their call for "structural reforms" in Lebanon.

"They reaffirmed the need to implement the structural reforms necessary for the country's recovery, as expected by the Lebanese population and the international community," the French presidency announced after a telephone conversation between the two leaders.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Friday called on the country’s newly-elected MPs to “hurry up in the needed steps to name a new premier and form a new government.”

“Any delay in the financial recovery plan will have a high cost that the Lebanese will bear,” Miqati warned, at a press conference that followed Cabinet’s final session at the Baabda Palace.

The International Support Group for Lebanon (ISG) on Friday welcomed the timely conduct of the parliamentary elections in Lebanon on May 15, expressing its appreciation for “the professionalism, hard work and dedication of the Lebanese civil servants involved in the electoral process” and commending the security forces for “maintaining public order during its conduct.”

“The ISG is encouraged by the Lebanese people’s civic participation in these elections in Lebanon and abroad, which was an opportunity for them to articulate their aspirations and to have their voices heard; they deserve that,” the ISG said in a statement.

The United States on Friday urged Lebanon's leaders to move urgently to form a government and address a crisis-wracked economy after elections raised fears of new political deadlock.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday called for postponing the debate over his group’s controversial arsenal of weapons for “two more years,” as he called for a quick formation of a new government.

“I agree that the (parliamentary) majority will be on a file-by-file basis,” Nasrallah said in a televised address marking six years since the death in Syria of Hizbullah’s top military commander Mustafa Badreddine.