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Citing concerns with the bipartisan Utah Debate Commission, the Utah Republican Party is moving ahead with plans to sponsor its own debates between primary contenders for Senate and Congress.

... when Alabama voters go to the polls Tuesday, they will do so without seeing any televised statewide debates...

Este lunes 23 de mayo se llevará acabo el tercer y último debate presidencial de cara a las elecciones de Colombia 2022.

Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown is calling out one of his Republican primary opponents in the U.S. Senate race for not again agreeing to face him on the debate stage.

The Leaders' Debate Commission proposes changes for the next round of election debates

The Uganda Musicians Association (UMA) electoral commission team has, at last, announced a new date for the highly-anticipated public presidential debate that was promised earlier.

Political parties that win elections have earned the ability to make a lot of policy decisions. But their ability to determine who will conduct, who will run in, and who will win, the next election must be balanced by traditions and institutions such as the Utah Debate Commission.

The only English-language debate planned for Quebec's fall election has been called off after two party leaders, including Premier François Legault, said they wouldn't take part.

Conservative Party of Quebec leader Éric Duhaime is inviting Quebec Liberal Party leader Dominique Anglade to take part in an English-language debate ahead of the October election, even if Premier François Legault declines to take part.

The chair of the Utah Republican Party said the GOP is “95%” certain it will set up its own debates for primary candidates, in addition to debates set up by the Utah Debate Commission.

A review that criticised the format of Channel Nine’s leaders’ debate was spiked by Tory Maguire, the executive editor of Nine Entertainment’s newspapers the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.

Organizing a decent minimum number of election debates ought to be seen less as a journalistic or philanthropic exercise (though it is always open to private groups to sponsor more) and more as a basic function of the state, like putting out polling booths or counting the votes.