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Now that Nigeria is off the shore of democratic nascency, it is pertinent to develop a platform, credible enough to educate voters by giving candidates of political parties an ample opportunity to address the electorate in order to minimise the risk of blind voting.

The Labour leader accused Mr Cameron of "ducking and weaving" by refusing to sign up to the debates and said they should go ahead with or without the Tory leader.

David Cameron should be replaced with an 'empty chair' if he refuses to take part in TV election debates, Ed Miliband said today.

Ahead of the elections in February, advocacy group, EiE Nigeria is organizing a Presidential and Governorship election debate series called “The Peoples’ Debate”

Badly burnt by what happened last time, the Tories set out to sabotage the negotiations right from the start.

Argentina Debate es una iniciativa que promueve el primer debate presidencial de la historia argentina en las elecciones 2015 y propone sentar las bases para su institucionalización como bien público.

Ahead of the elections in February, advocacy group, Enough Is Enough Nigeria is organising a Presidential and Governorship election debate series called ‘The Peoples’ Debate’.

The Economics Association of Zambia says only political parties with representation in Parliament were targeted for the intended presidential debate last Tuesday.

La iniciativa "Argentina Debate", que en nuestro país impulsa CIPPEC, genera la esperanza de un salto de calidad institucional. Frente a la poco sana costumbre de conocerlos exclusivamente a través de avisos publicitarios, el debate permitiría conocerlos "en la cancha", discutiendo sobre los temas

The presidential debate that was scheduled for last night failed to take off due to unknown reasons.

An Electioneering Group, Voters Awareness Initiative, on Tuesday said it had concluded plans to organise a debate for presidential and governorship candidates in the 2015 general election.

A neophite lawmaker has filed a bill that seeks to provide the public with the proper venues and opportunities to be informed about the qualifications and advocacies of the candidates for President and vice president.