NNA - Head of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil, said following the parliament session on Thursday: "We had two options: either vacuum or elections that would not happen."

"We cannot lay the full responsibility on the interior minister, who believes that the current political climate in the country does not allow holding the (municipal) elections," he added.

"At the financial level, the advances have not been disbursed, and at the logistical level, the electors' lists have not been distributed," he explained. "No central action to finalize the election has been accomplished," he added.

"We were heading towards vacuum, and any other opinion is evasion of responsibility," he said.

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