Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri kicked off on Thursday a new round of talks in an attempt to break the impasse that prevails over the cabinet formation and threatens the collapse of state institutions. Sources close to Hariri’s latest moves told Asharq Al-Awsat on Thursday that the PM was launching his round of talks based on new grounds that might push parties to offer some concessions. “Hariri is kicking off fresh talks based on the pressing economic situation, the weakening state caused by the absence of a government and the security gaps related to the latest problems that erupted at the airport,” the sources said. In this regard, Hariri sat down Thursday with leader of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, and member of the Democratic Gathering MP Wael Abu Faour to discuss the Christian and Druze knots. “During his meeting with Hariri, Geagea defined what the LF could accept or reject in the new ministerial formula,” LF media officer Charles Jabbour told Asharq Al-Awsat. He said the LF offered big concessions in the past and is currently unwilling to present more concessions to a level of abolishing itself and its popular representation. The sources uncovered that Hariri currently possesses new indicators that might produce a hole in the ministerial crisis. One of those indicators hints that President Michel and the Free Patriotic Movement of caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil would accept to give up the position of the Deputy Prime Minister and offer it to the LF. For his part, former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora called on Lebanese officials to help Hariri reach healthy solutions capable of producing a national unity government, which is qualified to remove the country from its sectarian sicknesses. “I suggest the formation of a small government that allows us to exit the current crisis,” he said.