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As well as questions from the moderator Claire Byrne, the seven party leaders faced questions from a 300-strong audience.

Though the presidential debate to be hosted at the University of Michigan is nine months away, Central Student Government held its third presidential debate town hall Monday night in Pierpont Commons to discuss student engagement, inclusion and safety.

With the general election less than a fortnight away it’s a chance for each leader to set out their stall for the electorate and for the voter to get a better sense of where each party stands on major issues facing the country.

Presidential candidates of political parties that will participate in the 2020 elections will slug it out in three presidential debates set for September, October, and December.

La iniciativa pretende contribuir al ejercicio y consolidación de nuestra democracia, especialmente en lo referido al derecho al voto informado, a través de un espacio participativo y plural que recoja las inquietudes y consultas de todo el sector privado, que pueda ser seguido por los votantes de

President Trump’s campaign is considering only participating in general election debates if an outside firm serves as the host, and his advisers recently sat down with the nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates to complain about the debates it hosted in 2016.

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The debate, moderated on Virgin Media One by veteran broadcaster Pat Kenny turned into a best-of of both parties’ main themes to date - for Mr Varadkar, that what has been done thus far under his Government isn’t enough but with a plea for the electorate to back his party to build on what it has

Noting that the debate hall capacity and tickets are managed by the Commission on Presidential Debates, Father Jenkins indicated a lottery system will be used to select the students who will receive Notre Dame’s tickets. A specific ticket number was not announced.

There was considerable frustration in the room that the moderators hadn’t been able to more forcefully urge the leaders to answer the questions so that they wouldn’t be able just to trot out their heavily practised one-liners. We all seemed to like the idea of moderators being able to ask follow-up

Participación Ciudadana, capítulo dominicano de Transparencia Internacional, manifestó su apoyo a los debates electorales que organiza la Asociación Nacional de Jóvenes Empresarios (ANJE), reconociendo su importancia al permitir a la ciudadanía conocer y contrastar las distintas propuestas y

The only thing better about the latest presidential debate was having fewer people on the stage. Other than that, the evening was, for the most part, a rehash of the candidates’ previously stated positions, an upright tweet-fest. It is time to re-format presidential debates — if not to junk the