Al-Mustaqbal movement has reportedly informed Speaker Nabih Berri that any agreement with the Free Patriotic Movement is “not tangible.”

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Wednesday, Ahmed Hariri, the secretary-general of al-Mustaqbal movement, informed Berri's adviser MP Ali Hassan Khalil that FPM chief Michel Aoun “remains a distant option” for the presidency.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader former PM Saad Hariri and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil have agreed on the importance of holding the presidential elections on time to avoid vacuum, the FM and sources said.

Hariri and Bassil, who is a Free Patriotic Movement official and MP Michel Aoun's son-in-law, held a meeting in Paris on Tuesday on the eve of the second round of the presidential elections.

Speaker Nabih Berri said on Wednesday that his parliamentary bloc will attend the legislative session to elect a new president, stressing the need to elect a “made in Lebanon head of state.”

Berri said in remarks published in local newspapers that the Development and Liberation parliamentary bloc will attend all sessions set to elect a new president.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that he would discuss with the commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Maj.-Gen. Paolo Serra, alleged Israeli violations of the U.N.-drawn Blue Line in the South.

Israel suddenly claimed that the Blue Line passes in the middle of Wazzani river and that the owners of resorts there can't clean part of the river, Berri told As Safir daily in remarks published on Tuesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri has kept himself at a distance from the consultations carried out by a ministerial-parliamentary committee on the wage scale amid rising anger against the authorities for seeking to make the payment in installments.

In remarks carried by several local dailies on Monday, Berri said: “I am not following up the (meetings) of the committee and I don't interfere in its work.”

Speaker Nabih Berri has warned that he would change his “classical” approach to the presidential polls if lawmakers failed again to elect a new head of state.

In remarks published by local dailies on Monday, Berri said: “I am so far dealing with the presidential elections in a classical way.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat urged al-Mustaqbal movement chief Saad Hariri to return to Lebanon soon as “there are no excuses that could justify his absence.”

“I call on Hariri to return and head an all-embracing cabinet (after the election of a new president) to avert further tension and crises,” Jumblat said in an interview with As Safir newspaper.

Western countries urged Lebanese officials on Friday to elect a new president within the constitutional deadline, voicing fear of vacuum at the helm of the country's highest Christian post, which will have negative impacts on Lebanon.

Informed sources reiterated in comments published in As Safir newspaper the U.S. administration's stance, which highlights the importance of “carrying out the polls on time and avoid vacuum.”

Speaker Nabih Berri said the first round of the presidential elections was a “rehearsal,” adding that the parliamentary session next week would be aimed at electing the new head of state.

In remarks to As Safir daily published on Friday, Berri said: “The real session next week won't be a session (aimed at knowing) the candidates.”

Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel condemned Wednesday the move of a yet unidentified MP who had cast a ballot carrying his name during the first round of the presidential vote, confirming that all of his party's MPs voted for Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea.

“The five MPs of Kataeb voted for Dr. Samir Geagea,” Gemayel said in an interview with LBCI television in the evening.