Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi warned Sunday against disrupting the elections for “personal and suspicious” goals.

He urged all Lebanese parties to prioritize Lebanon’s interest and to participate in the elections for change not for elimination.

Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah said Sunday that the Shiite Duo decided to return to Cabinet for the sake of Lebanon and the Lebanese.

“We have decided to take this step to search for solutions,” Fadlallah said, adding that “if the boycott will worsen the financial and economic situation, we are ready to end it for the sake of the people.”

Nearly half of the capital Beirut was plunged as of Sunday morning into a communications outage, as state-run telecom provider OGERO ran out of diesel needed to operate its power generators.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Saturday swiftly welcomed the announcement by Hizbullah and the Amal Movement that they will resume their participation in Cabinet sessions.

Hizbullah and the Amal Movement on Saturday announced the end of their boycott of Cabinet sessions, citing “citizens’ needs” and “the living situations of the Lebanese.”

It is "most likely" that al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri will not personally run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, MP Hadi Hbeish said.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh announced Friday in a statement that the Central Bank will continue to allow commercial banks to purchase U.S. dollars from it at the Sayrafa platform exchange rate.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea on Friday met with Prime Minister Najib Miqati and conveyed to him “an official written communication from the U.S. Department of the Treasury” that she said “answers to some of the concerns that the (Lebanese) authorities have” regarding regional energy deals.

Democratic Gathering Bloc MP Hadi Abou El-Hassan, said that President Michel Aoun instead of “lecturing” the dialogue boycotters, should have addressed “his ally,” which is “the main party disrupting the country.”

He added that “the one who had disrupted the country for 9 years out of his 16 years of management, shouldn’t accuse people of arrogance and of disrupting dialogue.”

The Lebanese lira made a major recovery against the dollar on Friday, after the central bank allowed commercial banks to purchase dollars from it at the Sayrafa platform exchange rate.