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Welcome to this First Debate Forum of the three that, at the national level, will be organized by the National Electoral Institute, with a view to the Revocation of the Mandate on April 10.

Les douze candidats à l'élection présidentielle étaient tous invités à participer à un débat public organisé jeudi soir, par le conseil citoyen des Trois-Cités et l'association J'aime la France.

Yet, irrespective of who decides to exercise his or her constitutional rights, I will want to see DEBATES.

Costa Rica’s runoff candidates, conservative Rodrigo Chaves and liberal Jose Maria Figueres, hurled strong accusations at each other during the first of five debates ahead of the April 3rd election.

Central to Spotlight PA’s mission is informing, equipping, and empowering voters in Pennsylvania to make educated decisions at the polls, and that includes subjecting any candidate for higher office to tough, nonpartisan questioning about their record and their vision.

Personally, I would have preferred if survey frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had attended the presidential debate sponsored by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

When Republican political consultant Samuel Chen first saw a missive from four Republican gubernatorial candidates, laying out their exacting joint criteria for participating in primary election debates, he was a little baffled.

Four Republican candidates for governor in the party’s crowded primary race say they will not join a debate before the primary election unless it is moderated by a Republican who lives in Pennsylvania, eliciting criticism that they are afraid of hard questions.

Wednesday was day 31 of the 2022 general election campaign, a day characterised by a televised debate between the prime minister and the leader of the opposition.

Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has suggested that presidential candidates invited to the Commission on Elections (Comelec)-sponsored debates should be required to wear earmuffs to avoid copying of ideas or answers.

Airing presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr.'s interview on state-owned PTV an hour before the Commission on Election's scheduled presidential debates was a management decision, Malacañang said on Tuesday.

Partido Lakas ng Masa vice presidential bet Walden Bello publicly challenged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to penalise his rival Sara Duterte and her presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos for snubbing the poll body’s debates.