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When the federal party leaders face off in October for the official English and French election debates, they will be answering questions from a panel of journalists — and from some of you.

On Monday, Oct. 7, six federal party leaders faced off in an English-language debate in front of a non-partisan live audience at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., overlooking Parliament Hill.

Le débat télévisé entre les candidats aux présidentielles, qui s’est déroulé hier, pour huit des 26 candidats, a été très suivi en Tunisie, mais aussi à l’étranger. Car il ne faut pas oublier que c’était une première dans le monde arabe.

Days before the first round of Tunisia’s presidential election, the fledgling democracy presented the first of three nights of televised debates between the candidates on Saturday, a rarity in the Arab world.

CNN's Chris Cillizza looks back at past presidential debate performances and explains how to have a breakout moment

It is for this crucial democratic prerequisite that Maclean’s and Citytv are co-hosting the first debate in the election cycle, just as we did in 2015.

The word on the street is that the third Democratic Presidential debate, the serious-candidates-only-one, will be where things go down.

Amazingly enough, there are still 20 “major” candidates in the field, which makes the field too big to function. Fitting all of them into a debate takes two nights. Listening to each of them talk for just six minutes back to back would take two hours.

Depuis la révolution, radios et télévisions apprennent pas à pas l’indépendance face à des politiques et des hommes d’affaires qui détiennent certaines chaînes.

La Comisión de Debates Políticos de Bolívar explicó que los candidatos que escogerán deberán tener un 3% de intención de voto en encuestas.

La Cámara Nacional Electoral elevó una propuesta a los representantes de los seis candidatos, con la mecánica de los debates, los temas y la duración de los bloques. Volverán a reunirse el próximo jueves.