Lebanon’s Hizbollah has held talks with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union as it seeks to secure continued financial support for Lebanon if the alliance it leads was to win next month’s parliamentary elections.

The discussions between the Shia militant group and donors take place amid intensifying concern in Beirut that a politically fragile, heavily indebted economy could come under severe strain if the current pro-western parliamentary majority was to lose the June 7 elections.