Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea announced Friday that Speaker Nabih Berri will call for a parliamentary session to elect a new president once a delegation he has tasked to communicate with all parties finishes its mission.

“Speaker Berri will call for an electoral session when the committee finishes its tour,” Geagea said after meeting with the three-member panel in Maarab.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam said Friday that partnership between the legislative and executive authorities was necessary to confront major political events.

Following talks with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh, Salam said: “We are living in difficult circumstances … which require continuous consultations.”

Speaker Nabih Berri will preside over a parliamentary plenary session that will begin on April 1 and end on April 3.

The legislature will convene in the morning and in the evening on those days to study and approve the draft laws and proposals that are on its agenda.

Speaker Nabih Berri denied that a three-member committee from his parliamentary bloc will inquire the political parties on their presidential candidate, saying he did not have any preferred candidate so far.

In remarks to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Thursday, Berri said the committee, which is made up of MPs Ali Osseiran, Michel Moussa and Yassine Jaber, will discuss with the representatives of parties the appropriate atmosphere to have a quorum in the parliamentary session to elect a new president.

Speaker Nabih Berri called on Wednesday for a three-day parliamentary session next week to tackle a jammed agenda.

The three-day session will also address the new wage scale “if the joint parliamentary committees wrapped up its discussions on the matter ahead of the general assembly meeting.

A three-member committee formed by Speaker Nabih Berri is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to come up with a roadmap for its talks with political parties on the presidential polls, two MPs from his parliamentary bloc said.

MP Ali Osseiran, who is a member of the committee made up from Development and Liberation bloc lawmakers, said: “We will meet today to specify the roadmap for our tour on political parties to guarantee a quorum for a parliamentary session” to elect a new president.

Speaker Nabih Berri hoped that the election of a new president will take place during one parliamentary session, reported As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.

He told the daily: “I believe that internal forces will hold sway over who will be elected president.”

Speaker Nabih Berri has revealed that he formed a committee to hold consultations with Lebanon's rival parties on the upcoming presidential elections.

The members of the committee are from his Development and Liberation bloc, the speaker, who is the head of Amal movement, said.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed on Wednesday the need to declare a state of security and services emergency in northern Bekaa, in particular, in the border town of Arsal and the nearby villages.

Berri pointed out in comments published in As Safir newspaper that security forces and the Lebanese army should control the security situation in Arsal and prevent any gunmen from staying in it or on its outskirts.

Speaker Nabih Berri called on Saturday parliament to convene next week in order to discuss the government policy statement, reported Voice of Lebanon radio.

It said that he called parliament to meet at 10:30 a.m. on March 19 and 20.