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There is no word yet if presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. will attend the second Pilipinas Debates 2022.

The Commission on Elections is all set for the second part of the series of presidential debates for Halalan 2022 which, it said, is expected to bring more fireworks among the participants following a change in format.

Vice presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte on Thursday said it is up to Congress whether to penalize those who do not attend election debates.

Attorney General Maura Healey said Thursday she would agree to debate Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz twice between the party's convention in June and the September primary, a much more limited schedule than the three pre-convention debates Chang-Diaz had been seeking.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) may push for a law that will punish presidential candidates who refuse to participate in national debates, according to a commissioner.

En 2017, Le Monde rapportait que Marine Le Pen avait refusé qu'Anne-Claire Coudray soit l'une des deux arbitres du débat du second tour de l'élection présidentiel, trouvant la journaliste " trop complaisante" avec Emmanuel Macron.

Why debate when you can control the medium and audience and not have to put up with pesky moderators or, worse yet, opponents?

Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria, a civil society organisation, has announced that it will host a symposium in commemoration of its 12th anniversary.

Thousands of viewers on the internet watched the Externado University debate, but only 850 people were in the auditorium with the five candidates in attendance

A time-honored staple of political campaigns, the traditional candidate debate, appears to be on life support.

Five Republican candidates for U.S. Senate said the 2020 presidential election was stolen and a sixth said there was fraud when asked during a debate in Greene County on Monday night.

Expect changes in the next presidential debate that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) organized for Sunday, April 3, Commissioner George Erwin Garcia said Tuesday.