Philippines

Due to the successful conduct of the debates, then Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said they want to make the debates a regular thing during elections.

Re-electionist Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III has filed a bill making electoral debates mandatory every campaign season.

The National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) is supporting the proposal of having the national and local election candidates to participate in debates ahead of electoral exercises.

The Inquirer catalogues in its “Duterte Says” series all the prepared statements, speeches and pronouncements of President Rodrigo Duterte made during and after the 2016 national and local elections in the Philippines.

“One thing which we did differently this year as opposed to the previous elections was the presidential debates,” he cited.

We took a long, hard look at what the candidates said—and how they said it—in the hope that we can help you decide or re-examine your vote.

The Comelec-sanctioned presidential debate series this year were the first to be held outside Metro Manila.

It also recorded a whopping national TV rating of 40.6 percent – the highest among the presidential debates in Commission on Elections’ “PiliPinas 2016” presidential debate series

The five presidential candidates will be sharing one stage for the last time, facing off for the final leg of the Commission on Elections’ Pili Pinas 2016 presidential debate series.

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who are based in Kuwait anxiously awaited candidates to address the issues of OFWs. “I want to vote for a candidate that will finally show us the way. We want to have better opportunities in my home country"