Thousands of supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) of Lebanese President Michel Aoun's party rallied on the presidential palace road on Sunday to express their support for him hours before anti-government demonstrations expected to take place in the center of Beirut.

Lebanon has been witnessing since October 17 an unprecedented protest movement, demanding the departure of the political class for more than two weeks throughout the country.

In the Baabda area east of the capital, thousands of people gathered in the morning on the road leading to the presidential palace under the slogan "O people of loyalty," raising Lebanese flags and orange flags symbolizing the president's party, and some carried banners reading "fruitful tree throwing stones."

The crowd stretched nearly a kilometer away, with some wearing orange, others carrying pictures of the 84-year-old president, and another for Free Patriotic Movement leader Gibran Bassil, Aoun's brother-in-law and foreign minister.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced the resignation of his government last Tuesday, under pressure from the street, and protesters are demanding the formation of a new government composed of technocrats and independents and they also demand the dissolution of parliament and the holding of early parliamentary elections, but it is likely that Hariri himself is closest to the formation of the new government.