Ex-Premier Omar Karami criticized the Hizbullah-led opposition for agitating factional tension.

Karami, in a televised statement, also accused "allies in the opposition" of restricting decision-making to themselves.

Karami, who had criticized Hizbullah for acts of violence that sparked early in July, has been kept out of meetings by the opposition leadership that has been grouping only Hizbullah's Hassan Nasrallah, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun and ex-MP Suleiman Franjieh of the Marada Party.

Karami also noted that ex-MP Talal Arslan has not been invited to the opposition leaders' meeting although he is related to discussions regarding forming a new cabinet.