BEIRUT - Head of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, expressed optimism over a prospective government formation in the following few hours or maximum within the upcoming few days as he said.

Speaking at a funeral of a party adherent in the southern Lebanese locality of Abbasiya, Raad well-wished the new potential government to be genuinely representative of nationalistic aspirations. He wanted the new cabinet to demonstrate a degree of productivity. He described international backing of Israel over the boarding of a ship off the coast of Cyprus as a condoning of Israel's piracy.