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Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has called for other party leaders to boycott an upcoming French-language debate that has excluded her.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is committing to taking part in two federal election debates and is willing to do a third — but will be a no-show for both the Munk and Maclean's/Citytv debates, despite efforts to convince the Liberal leader to take part.

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.