Parliament held a legislative session Tuesday at the UNESCO Palace in which several draft laws were approved and others were sent back to the parliamentary committees.

Among the bills that were passed was one that amends Lebanon’s loan treaty with the World Bank in order to support the government’s social aid plan, and another that obliges banks to transfer $10,000 to every Lebanese university student studying abroad for the 2021-2022 academic year.

The Beirut Civil Court of Appeals under the chairmanship of Judge Randa Harrouq on Tuesday dismissed ex-minister Youssef Fenianos’ recusal request against Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar, the state-run National News Agency said.

According to NNA, Harrouq said that the court lacks the jurisdiction to accept such a request, a stance that was expected after the Court of Cassation said that it exclusively has the right to look into recusal requests against Bitar.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has decried that “today, more than ever, we are living in another Lebanon.”

“The Lebanese decision has been completely usurped by a party that extends from here to the Islamic Republic” of Iran, Jumblat said in an interview with the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal, referring to Hizbullah.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Monday presided over a broad meeting aimed at following up on the issue of tightening border control and resolving the latest disputes with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries.

The meeting was attended by the ministers of defense, interior, foreign affairs, agriculture and industry, and the heads of Customs, Economic Committees, Association of Lebanese Industrialists, Beirut Traders Association, Union of Lebanese-Gulf Businessmen Councils.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati briefed Monday President Michel Aoun on the details of his call with French President Emmanuel Macron and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

The two leaders met in Baabda and discussed the general situation in the country and the governmental developments.

Discussions to secure the resumption of Cabinet sessions have made some progress, Social Affairs Minister Hector Hajjar said.

“Things will return to normal and all Lebanese components are tackling the file of resuming Cabinet sessions,” Hajjar, who is loyal to the Free Patriotic Movement, said.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati will soon call for a Cabinet session and the solution has “matured,” Education Minister Abbas al-Halabi said.

“The parties will come together to confront the difficult circumstances,” Halabi added, in remarks to al-Jadeed TV.

Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh on Sunday announced that his party will not name a successor for Information Minister George Kordahi, who resigned on Friday over a diplomatic crisis with the Gulf states.

"With our respect and love for all the names that have been raised in the press, our stance that we expressed in Bkirki about not naming a successor to ex-minister George Kordahi has not and will not change," Franjieh tweeted.

A top Hizbullah official announced Sunday that there are “good chances” to resolve the crisis that led to the suspension of Cabinet sessions.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Sunday described French President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative to resolve Lebanon’s row with Saudi Arabia as “brave,” but he warned that it might be obstructed by whom he called the “forces of darkness.”