Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri responded on Tuesday during the Parliament’s plenary session at the UNESCO Palace to MP Gebran Bassil who had promised to "appeal the decision to change the elections date to March 27."

"No one threatens me; I allow everything except threats," Berri said in response to Bassil. 

On the other hand, Berri had said in an intervention during the women’s quota discussions, "It is as if there are those who do not want wish to see an end to this country’s problems. Three years ago, the Development and Liberation bloc proposed a proportional law with Lebanon being one electoral district; it suggested a senate with equal shares between Muslims and Christians, which lead to a civil state," Berri said, adding that among the contents of the proposed law is a 20 women quota, which is similar to the current proposal.