BEIRUT: Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun said Tuesday his parliamentary grouping would give advance notice whether or not its ministers would take part in a Cabinet session planned for Wednesday.

“We are still determining our position and as yet have not decided whether we will participate in tomorrow’s [Wednesday] Cabinet session. The decision will be announced tomorrow after lunch time,” Aoun told reporters following the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabieh, north of Beirut.

Aoun’s comments come following a pledge last week by Prime Minister Najib Mikati that the Cabinet would discuss demands by Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc in order to avoid a boycott by the bloc’s ministers similar to one the previous week that thwarted a Cabinet session for lack of quorum.

Describing the government as “complicated,” Aoun said the Cabinet “appears to be a standstill.”

“Projects are not progressing and there are many complications: some artificial, others as a result of a lack of knowledge,” Aoun, the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, added.

“The manner in which [some sides] are dealing with us is not correct for there are some violations that are being protected and we are against this principle and do not accept that we be accused of being against a religion or sect for we are against the violation and not against the sect,” said Aoun.