Moderators, notes and topics: what is known about the regulations of the presidential debate between Massa and Milei for the runoff

2023-11-01 08:30:00

Facing the runoff on Sunday, November 19 (9:00 p.m.), one of the most anticipated stops is the presidential debate on Sunday, November 12, which will bring face to face Sergio Massa and Javier Milei at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

After the meetings at the headquarters of the National Electoral Chamber (CNE) with representatives of both parties, this Wednesday they will meet again to sort out the sequence of the six thematic axes, the place on the stage and the order in which they will speak.

The drawing will take place at 11, at the CNE headquarters, at 200 Leandro N. Alem Street, in the City of Buenos Aires.

Presidential debate: the Electoral Chamber will not allow Massa and Milei to take notes

Furthermore, as PERFIL learned, the CNE will accept the request of Unión por la Patria that Milei not be able to take notes during the debate. This issue was the one that generated the most disagreements among Massa’s representatives (Juan Manuel Olmos, Sofia Viannelli and Santiago García Vázquez) and Mercy (Santiago Viola, Karina Milei and Santiago Caputo).

The theme of “bullets points“, a term in English to define not a straight text but concepts, themes or keywords that would make reminders official, generated controversy since Milei’s intention, according to what those around the ruling party told PERFIL, was “take notes, read and even show graphs. This was prohibited in the regulations of the previous debates.

However, in La Libertad Avanza they report another version. They assure that they They asked to “maintain the same regulations” that allow taking notes, but not reading. And they added that it was Unión por la Patria who “asked to change the regulations so that those notes cannot be kept.”

The Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) will host the presidential runoff debate.

With the experience of the two previous debates, Massa’s team points out that they accepted the use of note takers, but “Milei and Bullrich finished reading” with the notes.

“It is true that we ask that ‘scripts’ not be used so that each candidate expresses without someone else writing the script, we raised it in the previous debate, that they could not have papers other than a note taker, they asked for notes and Milei and Bullrich finished reading. Now we propose the same thing as in the previous debate,” they explained to this medium.

Since there is no agreement between both parties, the National Electoral Chamber defined that it will not be possible to keep notes, as Profile learned. The CNE had already supported the idea of Don’t read in the debates.

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“In our case, It would be to bring only one and a half pages and have that content checked before taking it to the stage.“, they had stated from the space led by Milei.

Without right of reply, but with free interruptions

One of the most criticized points of the first two debates was that the candidates could not interrupt each other. Since there are now only two candidates instead of five, this will change for the runoff since it was agreed that each candidate will have six minutes per topic (in total there will be 12 minutes per topic) but they will not be in a row, but rather there will be interruptions between them. The moderators will have to control the time each person speaks.

“The idea is that they don’t talk over each other, yes there are interruptionsthere will be some, and each candidate will have to take advantage of their time, but that are not six continuous minutes of a candidate“, they explained to PROFILE.

2023_10_28_massa_milei_cedoc_g — Javier Milei and Sergio Massa.

What will be the 6 topics of the presidential runoff debate?

Although the order of the topics to be discussed is not yet known, the candidates will talk again about: Economy, Foreign Relations (Argentina and the world), Health and Education, Production and Work, Security and Human Rights and Democratic Coexistence.

Who will be the moderators of the presidential debate between Massa and Milei

As for the journalist moderators In charge of leading the debate will once again be two couples, one for each section, composed of a man and a woman. They will be the moderators who had been selected and were left out of previous editions: Antonio Laje (America), Pablo Vigna (Public TV), Luciana Geuna (Canal 13) y Erica Fontana (Telefé).