The belle of the ball on last night’s talk shows: The planned increase in pensions and civil servants’ minimum wage. Finance Minister Mohamed Maait blanketed the airwaves to explain and discuss the increases, with phone-ins to everyone from Hadith Al Kahera’s Khairy Ramadan and Karima Awad (watch, runtime: 14:16) to El Hekaya’s Amr Adib (watch, runtime: 19:49). We have chapter and verse in the news well, above.

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