Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad said on Wednesday that it was in everyone’s interest to hold Lebanon upcoming parliamentary elections on time.

Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad said on Wednesday that it was in everyone’s interest to hold Lebanon upcoming parliamentary elections on time.

“We do not want to anticipate [events], but we want to confirm that holding the [2013] parliamentary elections on time serves everyone’s interest,” the National News Agency quoted Raad as saying.

The Hezbollah MP also voiced the importance of holding the elections “in a suitable atmosphere that allows all parties to express their [electoral] programs without provocations.”

“Those who do not want the elections to be held on time resort [to creating] tensions and using profanity,” Raad said.

Lebanese parties are currently negotiating on the electoral law for the upcoming 2013 parliamentary elections. After the parliament agreed on drafting a law based on proportional representation, some parties rejected the proposed law and called for adopting the 2009 electoral law, which is based on the 1960 simple majority representation law.