Judges Club shoots down granting President powers to appoint judicial committees; one investor shows how protesting is really done
Monday was a humdrum night on the airwaves, with nothing to break the routine except an image that went viral showing an angry investor walking into a conference carrying a white shroud that symbolizes death to protest bureaucracy.
90 Minutes’ Moataz El Demerdash spoke to Luxor Governor Mohamed Badr about the businessman who walked into a press conference carrying the white shroud of his ‘kaffan’ (an action customarily associated with ending tribal feuds in Upper Egypt that usually involve a dead person) after being denied permission to build a petrol station inside a Luxor industrial zone, which Badr says is illegal (watch, runtime 5:42).
Yahduth fi Masr’s Sherif Amer zeroed in on the Supreme Judicial Council rejecting the House of Representatives’ proposed amendments to judicial codes, which would give the president the authority to appoint the heads of judicial, a power that presently rests with the judiciary. The Supreme Judicial Council’s vote had been unanimous, Ahram Online reports. The House took the amendments off their agenda pending further revisions, which they expect to finalize before the end of March, MP Ahmed Helmy told Amer.
On Kol Youm’s interim host, the actress Ragaa El Geddawy, covered FEP Capital’s Monday press conference in Cairo, where Managing Director Omar El Maghawry reaffirmed the company’s plans to invest EGP 250 mn in SMEs and distressed manufacturers over the next two years (watch, runtime 3:42).
Meanwhile on Al Hayah Al Youm, Lobna Assal hosted Dietrich Raue, the lead archaeologist on the Egyptian-German team handling the Matariya dig, who confirmed that the statue believed to belong to Ramses II was in fact broken before they began their work (likely during antiquity to be used as building material) and said that recovering the second half of the statue on Monday, which is bulkier, was a much more challenging feat (watch, runtime: 2:22).
Lamees El Hadidy and Amr Adib are still off the air while the latter convalesces.