BEIRUT: Future Movement MP Ammar Houri said the government will resign on Nov. 30, the day Cabinet is set to discuss the controversial issue of funding for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

“The Cabinet session on Nov. 30 in which the issue of the funding for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will be brought will be the last session for the present government because the other [political] camp is adamant on not funding," Houri told the Kataeb-owned Voice of Lebanon radio station.

“The prime minister [Najib Mikati] will not be able to convince them otherwise," he added.

Houri said Hezbollah, which has outright rejected funding the court that indicted four of its members in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and its allies in the March 8 alliance had arrived at a situation where they could not “outsmart [anyone] with words."

“Most of the Lebanese do not want a confrontation with the international legitimacy. If this governmental group wants to take the country in the other direction then let it take that responsibility," Houri added.

Despite Hezbollah’s opposition to the tribunal’s funding by the Cabinet, there are signs that this situation could change, sources have told The Daily Star. But if no change occurred, this would prompt Mikati to resign, the sources said.

Hezbollah denies involvement in Hariri's assassination and regards the court as part of “U.S.-Israeli project" targeting the resistance group.