Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Hassan Fadlallah urged on Thursday support for Hezbollah and "its mission of confronting foreign attacks." Fadlallah’s comments were made after the bloc's weekly meeting whereby he noted that “Hezbollah considers the battle that it is waging in al-Qalamoun as a national duty obligated by the interests of its people,” in reference to the battles Hezbollah and the Syrian regime are leading against armed groups in the Syrian border region of al-Qalamoun. As for the presidential vacuum, Fadlallah said: “The current vacuum is a sign of the depth of the crisis in the country.” Lebanon has been plunged into a presidential vacuum since May 2014 when the mandate of Michel Sleiman ended without the election of a new president. Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over a consensual candidate have thwarted the presidential elections.