Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday blasted calls for a so-called “package deal” that precedes the election of a president, noting that any candidate who accepts it has no “dignity.”

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh told ex-PM Saad Hariri during their latest meeting that he will not withdraw from the presidential race in favor of Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun and that he would only make such a move if there is an agreement on a third candidate, a media report said on Sunday.

The Free Patriotic Movement is still preparing for street protests despite the latest political developments and ex-PM Saad Hariri's return to Lebanon that has given a new impetus to efforts aimed at ending the presidential void, a media report has said.

Speaker Nabih Berri's rejection of the presidential nomination of Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun reflects Hizbullah's real stance despite the party's declared support for Aoun's bid, sources close to the FPM have said.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri met on Saturdaywith Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the Grand Serail after a series of shuttle presidency meetings over the week.

Hariri left the meeting without making a statement, media reports said.

Apple farmers held protests in several Lebanese regions on Saturday demanding a government action to help them sell their products inside Lebanon and to foreign markets.

Apple farmers in the Chouf district of Barouk blocked the road in a move that will be echoed in several other Lebanese regions on Saturday.

The Daylight Saving Time (DST) will end at 12:00 am on October 29, 2016.

Standard timing will be adopted as of Sunday, October 30 and clocks will go back to 11:00 pm.

March 14 general-secretariat member Elie Mahfoud said on Saturday that Hizbullah is seeking to bring a president who provides coverage for its security activities inside and outside Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

“Hizbullah is seeking to bring a Maronite to the post of the presidency who guarantees the safe return of its militias from Syria and, covers its security and military activities in Lebanon and outside the border,” he told NNA.

Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb said on Saturday that it is not in al-Mustaqbal Movement ex-PM Saad Hariri's interest to nominate MP Michel Aoun for the presidency, as he pointed out that it would lead the country to “negativity.”

“The country will arrive at a lot of negativity shall Aoun (founder of the Free Patriotic Movement) become a president,” said Harb to the VDL (100.5) in an interview.

The Internal Security Forces arrested a man in the Nahr el-Mot area near Beirut, for the possession of drugs and for allegedly planning to smuggle them into a juvenile prison, an ISF statement said on Saturday.

“On Friday 29/9/2016 a police patrol in Mount Lebanon busted Lebanese Aa.M., 1995, who was caught with amounts of hashish, two envelopes of Salvia divinorum, one envelope of cocaine, a Samsung mobile, Nokia mobile, LL 2,440,000 and $1600,” an ISF statement said on Saturday.