**An-Nahar:** Hezbollah has informed both candidates for the Sunni seats in Sidon, Osama Saad and Abdul Rahman Al-Bzari, that its machinery in Sidon and Jezzine will work against them in an attempt to eliminate one of them in order to secure the election of the joint Shiite candidate, Nabil Al-Zaatari. There is noticeable harmony in positions and presence between a young head of a parliamentary bloc and a resigned MP, which was evident during their tours in several villages and towns in the Mountain. An experienced politician says that the statement made by the American ambassador on the anniversary of the bombing of her country's embassy in Ain Al-Mreisseh carries significance in its timing and is indicative of both Lebanese and regional connections, noting that the positions of the American administration have not changed.
**Al-Joumhouria:** A Western ambassador reported that the parliamentary elections will be an important milestone that will establish Lebanon's entry into a phase of alleviation. Sources indicate that a crucial element in a sensitive region in the north has not yet surfaced, but may appear at the last moment and alter the equations. One ambassador received comments regarding the organization of an event that disregarded the invitation of the official parties concerned.
**Al-Liwaa:** A statement by the ambassador of a major country commemorating a significant event for her country regarding Lebanon's prosperity was seen as a response to what transpired during her meeting with a spiritual authority during her goodwill tour of various spiritual leaders. Certain officials are avoiding meeting with candidates or at least publicizing news about those meetings to ensure neutrality. Discontent has reached a point with a major southern figure that could not be hidden, in response to events in a southern coastal village.
**Nidaa Al-Watan:** Observers believe that the elections on May 15 will surprise Hezbollah and its allies, similar to the elections of 2000, when the alliance of Walid Jumblatt and Rafik Hariri triumphed against the Syrian regime's expectations of crushing them. Observers questioned the relationship between Ahmad Hashimi, head of the Beirut Development Association and close to President Saad Hariri, and the Orthodox candidate in Akkar, Saji Attiyeh, where it is rumored that he has aligned his team with some individuals associated with him within the Future Movement into Attiyeh's electoral team. A political figure remarked that if a major official authority could prevent Pope Francis's visit to Lebanon today, it would have, after realizing it would serve as a bridge between President Michel Aoun's era and the new era that will resume Lebanon's revival.
**Al-Anbaa:** There is an unjustified rush from official parties to complete a step that involves many risks, while it is necessary to make some amendments. Unexplained alliances have formed for a group that pretended to be sovereign and striving for reform, even as all its lists contradict this direction.
**Al-Binaa:** Legal sources predict that the judicial files will remain administratively and practically unresolved until after the presidential elections. They stated that the judiciary is in a caretaker stage, similar to the government, and following a collapse as significant as the current crisis, the reconstitution of authority must begin with the parliament. Diplomatic sources indicate that the most significant takeaway from the Ukraine war is that there is no major power in conventional war capable of conducting blitz warfare and achieving a decisive victory, and that the nuclear balance between East and West is matched by traditional and economic deterrence balance, which reflects the impossibility of mutual dependence, making a partnership system inevitable.
