There will be no dialogue on Thursday, the Berri-owned NBN TV said Tuesday.
The parliamentary session will be “exclusively for electing a president”, the media outlet said, as the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement refused to participate in a dialogue that might have replaced the presidential election session.
Earlier on Tuesday, The LF warned against replacing the election session with a dialogue, “categorically” rejecting participating in it.
Berri had announced last week that he would turn Thursday’s presidential election session into a dialogue if the blocs agree to such a move.
On Tuesday, he officially called for a presidential election session on Thursday, after the LF said in a statement that turning the election session into a dialogue would be a clear disruption to a constitutional requirement, asking Berri to withdraw his call for dialogue and to call instead for open sessions until a president is elected.