It was an unusually boring and uninspired night on the airwaves last night, with topics ranging from the state banks ‘Secure” CDs to World Cup coverage and, of course, more on the presidential election.

Social and financial protection for part-time non-government workers took up significant air time last night. The topic is a key plank of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s election platform. Coverage focused what are being marked as “secure deposit certificates,” which are meant to provide these workers with life and injury insurance. The product, on offer at state-owned banks, is gaining in popularity, Banque Misr head Mohamed El Etreby told Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary. Companies have also been buying more of the CDs to cover their workers, he said, adding that he expects the demand for them to further increase (watch, runtime: 4:55).

The Manpower Ministry is apparently also getting in on the social protection for workers game by launching an initiative with the “Sonaa al-Kheir” association to provide workers with healthcare, minister Mohamed Saafan tells Hona Al Asima’s Lamees Al Hadidi (watch, runtime: 7:00).

In a surprising turn of events, it was Kol Youm’s Amr Adib that went for an econ-related episode last night, speaking on economic development in Sinai, which he estimates will demand EGP 7 bn in funding. He urged the government to provide investors in North Sinai more incentives considering the dangers associated with investing there (watch, runtime: 7:23).

The question of whether the Support Egypt Coalition is planning to become a political party featured prominently on Hona El Assema as Lamees sat down with coalition head Mohamed Elsewedy, who offered nothing concrete and dodged the question (watch, runtime: 22:40).

The Egyptian press has been obsessed since 2011 with how citizens living abroad can cast their votes. Last night saw Al Hayah Al Youm’s Khaled Abu Bakr feature no less than three interviews on the topic (here, here and here if you must)

Over on Kol You, Amr Adib worried about voter turnout, with his studio guests predicting it would be reasonably low (watch, runtime: 2:51), but that it could be on par with the figure from 2014 (watch, runtime: 2:06).

For some reason, Lamees feels it is a national security issue that no Egyptian channel holds the rights to broadcast World Cup games. She thinks that turning to Qatar’s beIN Sports or the Israeli networks would constitute some kind of political risk (watch, runtime: 1:35).