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

An-Nahar: Prosecutor moves to determine truth behind TIME interview
Electricity bill to be discussed at Monday’s Cabinet meeting

Despite busy days for the government Monday and Tuesday to finalize the vital issue concerning the electricity draft law, repercussions triggered by the TIME interview with one of the four Hezbollah members indicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri took political and legal dimensions, thus overriding all other issues.
Information has revealed that State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza plans to summon TIME’s Beirut correspondent Nicolas Blandford who has told local television channels that he was not the one who interviewed the suspect.

Meanwhile, sources close to Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s said the head of the Lebanese government was awaiting the results of the investigation into the TIME interview.
The sources said Mikati urged Lebanese not to jump to conclusions over the interview, stressing that the government places this issue in the hands of the judiciary to take the appropriate measures.

As-Safir: Blandford: TIME added interview to my article

The interview by American magazine TIME with one of the accused “Hezbollah” members in the Hariri assassination has disturbed the Lebanese government at all levels and Lebanese have over the past 48 hours had to witness the repercussions.
The interview has also triggered a sharp political split between a camp led by Future Movement leader Saad Hariri – who launched a vehement attack against the government and did not spare President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Najib Mikati – and another camp led by “Hezbollah” which rejects this [TIME] interview and voiced skepticism about its credibility.

However, the prominent development was an initiative made by TIME’s Beirut correspondent Nicolas Blandford who denied any involvement in the interview, which strengthened suspicion over its content and placed the American TIME magazine in the circle of suspicion.
Blandford told As-Safir: “All there is to it, is that I received a call from TIME’s editorial manager Thursday to inform me that an interview had been conducted with one of the accused in the Hariri assassination and that it will be added to the article I had written about the indictment and Hezbollah’s position from it.”
When asked whether he was certain the interview had actually taken place. Blandford said: “I cannot confirm because I was not there. But I assure you that TIME is highly credible and it is impossible for it to resort to such a hoax. I am confident that the meeting with the accused took place, otherwise editors would not have agreed to publish it.”

Al-Mustaqbal: Soeid blames Hezbollah for Lassa incidents and warns against repercussions on Jbeil
Mikati government captive of its crisis over TIME interview

Lebanese political stances Sunday further uncovered the cartoonish Mikati government which was clearly hurt by the TIME magazine interview and revealed lack of seriousness concerning cooperation with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) and the extent of “respect” to international resolutions which the ruling arms party [Hezbollah] is not ashamed to hide.
What one of the Hezbollah suspects revealed to TIME magazine did not differ much from what Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has said during his latest television appearance and would not differ from what he will say in a televised speech Friday at “Iran Garden” at the border village of Maroun el-Ras.
Future TV quoted the TIME managing editor late Sunday as asserting the interview had been conducted with one of the Hezbollah suspects despite Hezbollah’s denial.

Another significant development Sunday was the press conference by March 14 coalition official Fares Soueid who said: “Lassa issue is bigger than just problems taking place in the town.”
Soueid said the fact that Nasrallah has given the issue much attention “shows the importance given to Lassa by Hezbollah which did not portray it as a simple dispute” over ownership of land.

A March 14 official accused Hezbollah Sunday of seeking to establish a new security zone in the district of Jbeil by encouraging illegal construction by Shiite residents in the area.
Fares Soueid, general coordinator of the March 14 General Secretariat, said Hezbollah was providing political and security protection for residents of Lassa, a predominantly Shiite village in Jbeil, in their dispute with the Maronite patriarchate over the ownership of land.

Ad-Diyar: Aoun became prime minister?
Mikati forced to sign electricity bill

As Ad-Diyar has mentioned over the past four days: Mikati has been stubborn and unwilling to give up his power and responsibilities, insisting that the money allocated to the electricity plan does not go unchecked. That stubbornness has given way. Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun has forced Mikati to succumb to his will which has made Aoun look like the prime minister and Mikati just any other member of the Cabinet.

Cabinet will meet Monday under Mikati to draft an amended electricity law to say that the bill passed through the government and not through Energy Minister Jibran Bassil. But in fact, Mikati has succumbed to Aoun, who overran the premiership by threatening that his Cabinet ministers will resign, thus prompting Mikati to relinquish his position as prime minister.