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So finally President Yoweri Museveni defied all predictions and attended the presidential debate. I can say without any fear of contradiction that Museveni did so in defiance of the advice of everyone in NRM and immediate family. It was an entirely personal decision. But it is Kizza Besigye, more

The Renua leader has written to Ireland's three TV stations asking to be included in another leaders' debate.

With less than three months to go in one of the most colourful election campaigns in Philippine history, the spotlight is shifting from personality politics to policy after the first presidential debate in 23 years.

The format of the debate...was unusual whereby political representatives were dotted among members of the audience rather than on a stage or placed alongside each other.

It is useful to reflect on whether that debate served any function. Did it win any hearts; did any voters change their minds having been won over by a candidate's presentation? Difficult to judge but it is unlikely that any voter could have been persuaded on the night.

An administration lawmaker blasted Monday the excessive bunching of television commercials during the first leg of the Commission on Elections-organized presidential debate on Sunday evening.

The National Democratic Movement (NDM) has expressed disappointment in the “tone” of the 2016 election campaign.

The Cagayan de Oro Press Club maintains government should make sure the national event is 'equally covered' by mass media, free from any monopoly. CenterLaw, meanwhile, supports the suit against the Comelec chair.

A total of 39 students from Capitol University, the venue of the first presidential debate in Cagayan de Oro City, were recently inducted as the first batch of the Inquirer Volunteer Corps, a program of the Inquirer Group of Companies that aims to empower the youth and ordinary citizens of the

Vice President Jejomar Binay has cancelled his scheduled sorties in nearby Misamis Oriental on Saturday and is taking a break instead a day before the start of the presidential debates here.

A number of industry players have thrown their weight behind arts advocate and television presenter Kwame Dadzie’s call on stakeholders of the creative arts to organize a debate for all presidential aspirants before the 2016 general elections.

“She will come in her best fighting form,” Santiago’s media relations officer, Kim Patria, told Rappler in a phone interview.