Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi's envoy Bishop Samir Mazloum lamented the eruption of the dispute between the Christian Free Patriotic Movement and Lebanese Forces over the parliamentary electoral law, urging calm to resolve their differences, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper Saturday. He told the daily: “A meeting between the two sides has not been scheduled due to the high tensions between them.”

The dispute erupted between the two parties after the FPM accused the LF of abandoning the Orthodox Gathering parliamentary electoral law, which it had previously agreed to at the joint parliamentary committees along with the FPM, Marada Movement, and Phalange Party. [Link]