It was a mixed bag on the talk shows last night, with debate over security approvals required for shops under the Public Shops Law a big topic of debate. We have more in the morning’s news well, above.

A bumpy road for wildcat building reconciliation law? Draft legislation to speed up the building reconciliation process received attention on Kelma Akhira last night following a “heated” seven-hour debate among a joint parliamentary committee and the local development and housing ministers (watch, runtime: 13:05). Rep. Ahmed El Seginy, who heads the House Local Administration Committee, said that elements of the bill “clash” with the constitution, which requires the government to remove encroachments along the Nile River.

REMEMBER- The government has offered owners the option to pay to reconcile illegal buildings since 2020 but authorities have reportedly only responded to a fraction of the mns of requests received, while fines have gone unpaid. A lack of unified rules has meant that various governorates around the country have been implementing the law differently. The new draft bill, approved by the Senate, aims to address these issues,

Many illegal buildings are outside the scope of reconciliation: El Seginy said he was provided data that shows that 920k reconciliation requests were beyond scope of the original legislation. “We need to think about the box, we can’t just demolish nearly 1 mn[illegal] buildings,” he said.

Morocco’s progression to the World Cup semi-finals was still one of the most talked-about stories on the airwaves last night, with Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi interviewing ex footballers and pundits on Morocco, Brazil’s dramatic loss to Croatia and others ahead of the semi-finals later this week (watch, runtime: 5:42 | watch, runtime: 2:28). Ala Mas’ouleety also took note, with coverage on predictions for the semi finals and Morocco’s superb performance. Football pundits see a difficult game between Morocco and France, yet “impossible is nothing” given Morocco’s performance (watch, runtime: 4:31).