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

Al-Mustaqbal
Geagea sees Cabinet collapse unlikely … Kabbara answers Raad’s threats

Al-Mustaqbal has learned that Energy Minister Jibran Bassil notified Prime Minister Najib Mikati during their meeting Monday that he is adamant on his proposal as it is and was against any amendments. Bassil refused to provide Mikati with the list of conditions relating to the project. Mikati then told ministers at a Cabinet session on the electricity issue about Bassil's stance and refusal to disclose the conditions. Prior to the session, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri contacted Bassil to persuade him to sign onto Mikati’s suggestions but the energy minister refused.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said there were a number of issues relating to the electricity bill that needed to be followed up but expressed doubt “that this issue will lead to the collapse of the government because [the decision] to collapse the government has nothing to do with the Free Patriotic Movement.”
“The decision on whether to collapse the Cabinet is with those who decided to form it.”

Al-Anwar
Continued disputes inside Cabinet over electricity law

Intensive meetings and discussions over the electricity plan Monday ended with a proposal that left the matter outside the authority of the energy minister, who did not attend the Cabinet session at the Grand Serail. Ministerial sources said that putting forward a proposal to resolve the dispute did not mean things were finalized. The sources added that discussions were still ongoing and that the crucial hours before Thursday’s Cabinet session were open to all possibilities.
Even though Energy Minister Jibran Bassil said during a news conference that “we are not looking for problems and we do not want the Cabinet to collapse,” he added: “If the government does not adopt the plan then it will be dooming itself to failure.”

Ministerial sources said that the Cabinet session ended with a proposed solution that Prime Minister Najib Mikati informed President Michel Sleiman about. The proposal was then sent to Health Minister Ali Hasan Khalil who relayed it to the energy minister, who had not attended the Cabinet session.

The sources said that Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi proposed that the funding for the electricity project be partitioned: The government would fund the first phase of the plan from the treasury at a value of $600 million, and it would then work to secure what remained for the second phase and would raise the money from donor funds, and if that was not possible, then the treasury would provide the funding at that stage.

Al-Balad
The Free Patriotic Movement’s honor is hit by two factors: Karam’s collaboration [with Israel] and Bassil’s electricity [plan]

Discussions over the electricity plan are still ongoing and no solution has been reached. This is what can be concluded on the matter after sources close to the energy minister said: “Minister [Jibran] Bassil will consult the Change and Reform Bloc to come out with a decisive stance over the proposed solution” that was put forward during the Cabinet session headed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati Monday but in the absence of Bassil. The sources viewed that some of the proposals took away from the energy ministers prerogatives and honor. This comes at a time when the FPM has not got over the effects of the verdict against Brig. Gen. Fazyez Karam for the crime of collaborating with Israel.