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
Efforts to wrap up scandalous dispute over the Zahrani [power] plant
Government before test of regaining normality
What is the truth behind the unprecedented “scandalous electricity” issue that plunged much of Lebanon into darkness Friday, when the Zahrani power plant was disconnected from the Electricite Du Liban grid?
The issue was scandalous due to the circumstances surrounding the incident both in terms of the official and political “blackout” with as yet no word from the relevant minister as well as failure to take legal measures of the assault that targeted and crippled a public institution.
Based on information made available to An-Nahar, it appears that efforts are under way to wrap up the dispute and prevent its repercussions.

As-Safir
Government to resume work, pending [talks with] Aoun and [administrative] appointments

While the Zahrani power plant was back to producing electricity after its “liberation” from the bickering among allies of the same ranks, the active resumption of work by the government still awaits the outcome of talks that will take place with Gen. Michel Aoun in these two days.
Meanwhile, a Cabinet meeting scheduled for Wednesday at Baabda Palace is still scheduled to take place with sources saying the session will proceed regardless of whether ministers from Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement attend or not.

Representatives from the Marada Movement and Tashnaq are considering participating.
Prominent sources in the FPM told As-Safir that, based on the outcome of talks that continued well into the night Sunday, Aoun’s ministers would not attend Wednesday’s session.
However, they said their stance did not apply to all their allies, pointing out that the quality of the items on the agenda did not encourage a return to government sessions.

Separately, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Energy Minister Jibran Bassil succeeded in resuming operations at the Zahrani power plant. The deal calls for providing a transformer that meets the needs of the region.

Al-Mustaqbal
Abdel-Latif Zein holds energy minister responsible
Zahrani square: What mystery ... what deal?

A third day went by without electricity in most regions of Lebanon, in an unprecedented ordeal since the 2006 [Israeli] aggression which raised many questions and a lot of uncertainty over what happened and is happening at the “Zahrani square,” which is off-limits to EDL technical teams.
Amid this all, there was a blatant absence of any position or measure by Energy Minister Jibran Bassil.
With the lack of any official explanation as to what happened at the Zahrani power plant, except talk about “political” solutions or solutions still under the works as a result of negotiations between Berri and Mikati, important questions were unleashed, most notably: Is there another “Tarshish” [network]?
[In October, residents of Tarshish prevented engineers from allegedly carrying out work on a telecommunications network belonging to Hezbollah].

Meanwhile, a member in Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri’s Liberation and Development bloc, MP Abdel Latif Zein, held EDL and Bassil responsible for “the suffering inflicted on the people of the south as a result of power outages.”

Al-Liwaa
Cabinet faces appointments, wages and fuel
Nahhas: FPM ministers’ decision on participation [in Cabinet] not finalized yet

Sources told Al-Liwaa that in the event a Cabinet session did take place Wednesday, a new item may be added to the agenda: calls for lowering the price of diesel, a measure often taken by governments around this time of year.
The sources pointed out that one of the main topics on the agenda was the issue of wages and filling vacancies at the Tourism Ministry.
Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas told Al-Liwaa overnight that the FPM ministers’ decision to participate in Wednesday’s session was not yet finalized.

However, ministerial sources confirmed that the Cabinet meeting would take place as per schedule.
A ministerial source, on the other hand, denied Cabinet would tackle administrative appointments but he expected the government to approve a law to amend pay wages and another to fill vacant tourism police posts.