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En Argentina, contrariamente a lo que ocurre en casi todas las democracias del mundo, nunca hubo un debate entre candidatos a la Presidencia. Pero puede ocurrir el año que viene.

Se espera de los candidatos que confronten públicamente sus propuestas y digan cómo las van a llevar a cabo, y que muestren tolerancia frente a la opinión ajena.

Preliminary results in the country's first presidential ballot since the uprising are expected later on Monday. But the parties of two frontrunners said initial tallies showed they would face off in next month's second round.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is urging legislators to consider passing this early a bill creating a Presidential Debate Commission in time for the May 2016 polls.

He pointed out that by introducing the debates, Malawi embraced a global pehnomenon practised in over 60 countries, adding that the debates were more relevant beacuse they avoided personality or ethnic mud-slinging by limiting the participants to issue-based debating.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and the mayor of Sibiu Klaus Iohannis, the two presidential candidates who will compete in the second round of the presidential elections, on Sunday, Novembr 10, haven’t reached an agreement on a televised political debate and the chances of having such a

“L'émission Chokran 3ala al Houdhour invite ce mardi soir 11 Novembre à partir de 18h30, les andidats aux élections présidentielles Ahmed Najib Chebbi et Hamouda Ben Slama. Le débat sera animé par le journaliste et présentateur Boubaker Ben Akacha.”

En 2015 hay una oportunidad única para poner a la democracia argentina en un nuevo y mejor equilibrio cívico. El año próximo, los candidatos que eventualmente participen del primer debate presidencial de la historia argentina evidenciarán su compromiso con el electorado y con una nueva forma de

La iniciativa del gobernador de Entre Ríos y precandidato presidencial kirchnerista estipula cinco debates, uno por cada canal de aire.

The two candidates who are running in the second round of the presidential elections in Romania...had their first debate since the beginning of the campaign, on Tuesday, November 11.

The Greens, the Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru have joined forces to ask the BBC to rethink its plans to exclude them from the main TV leaders’ debates in next year’s general election.

Presidenta de la ONG que organiza los debates presidenciales en EE.UU., afirma que esta tradición democrática "es la oportunidad de escuchar a un candidato sin guiones"