**An-Nahar**
• The absence of a former governmental reference from political statements has been noted, raising questions about this reluctance.
• Some active expatriates abroad have started to monitor events in embassies to thwart any actions by diplomats affiliated with a specific political group.
• Lebanese and Syrian forces are providing services and facilitation for border crossers and smugglers through a parliamentary candidate in Western Bekaa.
• It was learned that a prominent party leader visited a Chouf MP at his home, who did not participate in the upcoming election, thanking him for all he has done for his region and country. The meeting was friendly and familial.
• A political reference stated in his gatherings that the current situation resembles that before the 2005 era on the political level, reminding everyone of the era of tutelage.
**Al-Liwaa**
• The mixing of cards continues to unfold in the electoral arenas to an extent unprecedented at any time, resulting in implications that will dictate the international approach to them.
• Transactions in vital ministries affecting the interests of citizens and others are delayed for months on end, leaving rights suspended in uncertainty.
• Banks continue to mishandle the entitlements of employees and retirees without accountability, raising the question: Where is the banking regulatory authority and its punitive and binding measures?!
**Al-Jumhuriya**
• A minister, following a meeting with an official reference, regarded the stance of this reference on a sensitive project as more tactical than principled.
• A high-ranking reference stated that expatriates were the first victims of the banks where they deposited 40 billion dollars, and now they know nothing about its fate.
• It became clear that a visit by an official to another official some time ago aimed to definitively deny what was published about a sensitive project.
**Al-Anbaa**
* **Attempt to Influence**
A former minister is trying to pressure his allies on the electoral list through direct intervention from an influential party to channel all preferential votes to him, as it is the only way to give him a chance of winning.
* **Intentional Softer Tone**
An influential party deliberately softened its rhetoric after realizing that it was serving competing parties.
**Al-Binaa**
• A media figure on the March 8 Alliance commented on what was published by Okaz newspaper regarding requests from Hezbollah officials to Iran for a sum of 25 million dollars to support allies electorally, saying, “Notifying us of the amount of the first Saudi electoral financial installment didn't require this convoluted method.”
• Russian sources confirm that a valuable security treasure and a mysterious secret will be revealed by the exit of trapped fighters in the Mariupol mining complex, and the level and nature of communications happening and the financial and political offers made to ensure mass evacuation via the sea without identity checks confirm that.
