Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Saturday. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.

Al-Mustaqbal: A war for the removal of Hezbollah’s ministers if suspects are not surrendered; March 14 to hold Nasrallah responsible for providing suspects protection

On the say after French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s speech that was addressed to President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Najib Mikati in which he apparently warned he would pull out French troops from the United Nations Interim Froce in Lebanon if it were to suffer any renewed attack, the political scene seems to be facing a number of challenges at the security, legal and political levels.

And as was expected, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon announced that it “was within its jurisdiction” to look into the three attacks that targeted former Communist Party head George Hawi, former Minister Marwan Hamadeh and former Minister Elias Murr.

Amid this, supporters of slain Prime Minister Rafik Hariri flocked to central Beirut to show their support for the pursuit of justice.

On the sidelines of the gathering, Hamadeh said the event “was so that it could be said that a portion of the indictment has been issued and that the truth has begun to be revealed and that no one can stop the course of justice and the revealing of the truth.”

“It would be best that the accused appear before the court and allow it to take its course, otherwise this would be proving their guilt.”

March 8 continued its attack on the STL’s indictment. AFP reported, quoting a March 14 source, that the coalition had convened a meeting of its leadership in the past few hours and “has taken the decision in priniciple to hold [Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan) Nasrallah and Hezbollah responsibility in the event they continued to protect the four suspects and not cooperate with the Special Tribunal.”

Harb said the government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati was in front of three options: Either it persuades Hezbollah to hand over the suspects to the international court or, if Hezbollah refuses to comply with the request, to call on Hezbollah ministers to resign, or to sack them if they refuse the request to resign. The third option, Harb added, “and this is the least preferred of the three, is that the government announces its solidarity with Hezbollah and its rejectionist stance toward handing over the suspects.

Ad-Diyar: Mikati succumbs to pressures, Bassil to be handed $1.2 billion through spruced up [draft law]

Prime Minister Najib Mikati has had to contend with pressures, threats and intimidation, especially after the threat by Free Patriotic Movement head MP Michel Aoun’s of pulling out his ministers from Cabinet, forcing its collapse. An agreement has been agreed through a spruced up formula of the electricity proposal that will be brought forward during a ministerial meeting Monday that would see Energy Minister Jibran Bassill allotted the sum of $1.2 billion without any form of oversight or accountability.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea appears to be the spearhead of March 14 coalition at the moment. This comes because former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the alliance’s leader, is outside of the country, Nasib Lahoud’s pulling out from the coalition and the Phalange Party shunning the group’s leadership meetings.

Ad-Diyar has learned that Mikati is upset over the situation and wonders what reassurances Aoun might want on every project so that he does not call on his ministers to resign and force the government’s collapse.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt sent Minister Wael Abou Faour to see Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who gave his assurances that the majority needs to remain united and that the electricity plan needs to “work.”

Meanwhile, Aoun has notified Interior Minister Marwan Charbel that he must consult with the FPM leader on any Christian appointments inside the Interior Ministry.

Al-Liwaa: Indictment widens chiasm … no developments domestically

Mikati’s team proposes monetary plan for electricity [law] Tuesday

One of accused in Hariri case: Authorities know where I live

The internal political scene is more divided given two things:

1- The situation in Syria, with some banking on the regime to fall before the end of the year and those who are wagering that regime with come out of the crisis also before the end of the year

2- The release of the indictment and the international community stressing Lebanon’s need to abide by its financial and legal commitments to the courts as agreed in the accord signed by the two sides as well as the fact that Lebanon requested that the court be established.

While the government has voiced its adherence to the court, observers have noted the widening division between on the one hand Future Movement leader Saad Hariri and Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah on the other.

However, unaligned political sources said they did not expect at the present moment developments on the ground for the settlement of accounts at the regional and international levels.

Sources said portraying the dispute over the electricity plan as between Mikati and Bassil was inaccurate.

As Safir: "Hezbollah" preparing defense by attacking technicalities of court

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon was further put into the international spotlight with the recent news of the court linking Hariri’s assassination to crimes, such as the assassination of the former secretary general of the communist party George Hawi, and the assassination attempts on the lives of Marwan Hamadeh and Elias Murr. 

Hezbollah has now commissioned a technical team to look at the circumstantial evidence against them, and they will hold a news conference next week in which the results will be revealed, in addition to providing new facts about the Israeli violations of the telecommunications sector.

On the political front, Energy Minister Jibran Bassil, in a news conference held yesterday, stressed the importance of adopting a new electricity law. A ministerial source told As Safir that the project would be submitted to Parliament to form a draft law.

Regarding Lebanese elections, Christians have expressed an interest in proportional representation, meaning they would be represented in elections proportionate to their numbers. The Maronite patriarch leader showed an interest in discussing the parliamentary elections, scheduled two years from now in summer 2013. They are already drawing up a preliminary draft of the electoral law that would give true representation of Christians.