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Quebec Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade has made a plea to the English-language media consortium to reschedule its election debate, writing in a Friday letter that such events are "essential" to democracy.

The Haldimand mayor has been a no-show at three all-candidates meetings and has ducked numerous media requests for interviews.

Democracy demands informed choices, and those are facilitated best when voters get to hear candidates answer unscripted questions in debates sponsored by independent, nonpartisan groups.

Newmarket-Aurora Progressive Conservative candidate Dawn Gallagher Murphy, who is hoping to replace departing incumbent Health Minister Christine Elliott, did not attend the debate due to a “scheduling conflict."

Why do we have leaders’ debates?

Candidates so deferential to their bosses, so willing to short-change the people of their ridings, are a discredit to democracy and an embarrassment to themselves.

Najib Razak has challenged DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang to a debate in English.

C'est peu dire cette année qu'il faut redoubler d'efforts pour convaincre les candidats aux législatives de participer à un débat.

Officials with the Tennessee Democratic Party say they will host three gubernatorial debates ahead of the upcoming August primary election.

Two nurses were injured while protesting outside the provincial election debate on Monday, a provincial health care worker union said.

Some quarters suggested that the recent publicly held debate between Datuk Seri Mood Najib Razak and Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is a sign of “maturing politics” and can lead to “more” democracy in our country.

The candidate debates for Utah’s primary elections are coming up, and the state’s Republican Party has thrown the nonpartisan, independent Utah Debate Commission a curveball.