Prime Minister Saad Hariri won a parliamentary vote of confidence after 87 lawmakers voted in favor of his government on Wednesday.

Kataeb MPs Sami Gemayel, Nadim Gemayel and Samer Saadeh, and MP Khaled Daher withheld their confidence from the cabinet.

A Hizbullah delegation held talks Tuesday evening with leader of the Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblat, at the latter's residence in Clemenceau, where talks focused on the electoral law, As Safir daily reported Wednesday.

The meeting was held in the presence of Jumblat's youngest son, Aslan, and PSP officials, said the daily.

On the eve of the second parliamentary session set to convene for the government’s vote of confidence on Wednesday, the cabinet has a busy schedule ahead with drafting the state's budget on top.

One man was killed and another was wounded Wednesday morning in a blast in Baalbek, the National News Agency reported.

The blast targeted a passenger bus that was passing through the town of al-Ain, NNA.

The Kataeb Party bloc will withhold confidence from Saad Hariri's government because its political vision “contradicts” with the party's vision, Kataeb chief MP Sami Gemayel announced in parliament on Tuesday.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed Tuesday that the 2005 Cedar Revolution of the March 14 forces “will continue.”

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced Tuesday that the so-called “axis of resistance” will emerge victorious from the conflicts in the region.

A parliamentary session dedicated to discussing the cabinet's policy statement was held Tuesday in Nejmeh Square ahead of a vote of confidence that will be held Wednesday.

Three days of parliamentary debate had been scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday but the political forces agreed to limit the number of speeches and the government is expected to easily win a vote of confidence on Wednesday after Prime Minister Saad Hariri responds to remarks raised by MPs during Tuesday's session.

After the killing incident of army Corporal Ali al-Qaq on Monday, the Lebanese Army Airborne Regiment stormed several homes at dawn on Tuesday in the border town of al-Qasr in northeast of the Hermel district in search for the culprits, the National News Agency reported.

The army said the homes stormed in al-Qasr were of people suspected of involvement in the death of Qaq, who was gunned down while on vacation in Syria.

A request raised by State Minister for Parliament Affairs and Syrian Social Nationalist Party leader Ali Qanso to include a clause on Syria in the new drafted policy statement was not taken into consideration by the cabinet, the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported Tuesday.

In that regard, when the cabinet was drafting its policy statement last week, Qanso said the statement should include a clause about “coordination with Damascus with whom we have agreements,” a ministerial source told the daily on condition of anonymity.