By far the most talked about issue in the airwaves last night was the House of Representatives’ passing of controversial amendments which would see the President appoint the heads of the judicial authorities.

Judges Club head Mohamed Abdel Mohsen Mansour took to Yahduth Fi Masr to rail against the move and outline the course of action judges will take next, including holding a general assembly of the judges club to issue a unified statement of condemnation on 5 May.

Concerns of the validity of the vote was the focus of Al Hayah Al Youm’s episode last night. 25-30 Coalition member Diaa Dawoud tells host Tamer Amin that a quorum was not there for the vote to pass. He also decried how the vote did not include discussions on the Egyptian Council of State’s objection to the amendments (watch, runtime: 4:22). Deputy head of the Council of State Hassan Badrawi told Amin that ignoring of their report is “unconstitutional” (watch, runtime: 4:09).

House Legislative Committee chair Ahmed Helmy El Sherif argued that Parliament followed constitutional procedure in issuing that law on last night’s Hona Al Asema. “We spent six months studying that law,” he tells host Lamees Al Hadidi, adding that the bill maintains the independence of the judiciary (watch, runtime: 7:05).

Away from the war of words brewing between the House and seemingly the entire judicial branch of government, talking heads looked at President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s comments from the second day of the Youth Conference in Ismailia (more on those in the Speed Round).

Lamees praised El Sisi’s honesty in discussing the state of inflation in the country. She also agreed with his view that the events of January 2011 were not a solution to the country’s problems (watch, runtime: 5:42).

Over on Kol Youm, Amr Adib urged Egyptians who disagreed with the president to go vote for someone else next year. He called on those who will vote for El Sisi to bear his policies without complaints (watch, runtime: 2:00).