House Speaker Nabih Berri postponed on Monday the thirty-eighth presidential election session to May 10 due to a lack of quorum at Parliament.
Fifty-three lawmakers only attended the session.
In a press conference following the session, head of Future bloc MP Fouad Siniora held the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah responsible for disrupting the elections.
For his part, Lebanese Forces MP Georges Adwan said that Hezbollah should be the main side held accountable for the vacuum because it has long demanded that MP Michel Aoun be elected.
Telecommunications Minister Boutros Harb said, “It is shameful that all the countries around the world keep on reminding us that we should elect a president.”
He reiterated his intentions to propose a Constitutional amendment that compels MPs to attend the sessions.
The amendment, according to the lawmaker, would consider MPs resigned if they miss three consecutive presidential election sessions without a legal excuse.
Lebanon has been plunged into a presidential vacuum since the mandate of President Michel Sleiman ended in May 2014.
Rival political blocs have failed to reach an agreement on who should fill the vacuum.