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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.

Among the 5 presidential candidates gearing up for the first Commission on Elections (Comelec)-sanction presidential debate on Sunday, February 21, it can be argued that Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Manuel Roxas II is among the most equipped.

It will be the first time that the public will see all the 2016 presidential candidates on one stage.

The Cagayan de Oro city police on Friday, February 19, started cordoning off the area around Capitol University, where the first presidential debate since 1992 will be held

autista said all five presidential candidates – Vice President Jejomar Binay, Senators Grace Poe and Miriam Defensor Santiago, former Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte all agreed to attend the debate, which will start at 5 p.m.

Fair warning to presidential candidates participating in upcoming presidential debates: your inappropriate nonverbal behavior is noticed, and it could overshadow the substance of what you say.

Voice of America senior editor Shaka Ssali has said he considered a last-minute withdrawal from co-moderating last weekend 's presidential debate after organisers told him he would not question Mr Yoweri Museveni, the ruling NRM party candidate, as a precondition for the latter's participation.

He joked. He complained. But most importantly, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni engaged his rivals for the first time ever in a genuine political debate that was broadcast live to millions of Ugandans.

El Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia -Unicef consideró hoy primordial que la agenda de la niñez esté presente en los debates de los candidatos presidenciales para garantizar el desarrollo integral de este importante sector de la población peruana.

THE first presidential debate initiated by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be held in Cagayan de Oro (CDO) this Sunday.

We wish to share some of the information that the Jamaica Debates Commission (JDC) has garnered over the 14 years that we have been staging debates.