Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai announced that "Education Minister in the caretaker government Abbas Halabi confirmed that he is studying the requests for the tenure of professors at the Lebanese University, hoping to present it to the Cabinet in the next session." Rai said in his sermon today, from Diman, that "it is essential to elect a president for the republic and for the Parliament to resume its role, as well as the Cabinet, to take responsibility towards our poor people and to stop the migration bleed."