When and where will the next presidential debate be: date, moderators and topics

2023-10-03 06:20:00

After the first meeting in Santiago del Estero, The five candidates for president will meet again in a debate next Sunday, October 8, just two weeks before the general elections on the 22nd of this month. The authorities of the National Electoral Chamber have already established a place, axes to discuss and moderators.

The second debate will allow Javier Miley (Freedom Advances), Patricia Bullrich (Together for Change), Sergio Massa (Union for the Homeland), Juan Schiaretti (We do for Our Country) and Myriam Bregman (Left Front) meet again to continue communicating their campaign objectives and strategies, but this time in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

The UBA Faculty of Law It will be the setting for the exchange, which will maintain a similar scheme to the debate held last Sunday. The mandatory topics assigned by the National Electoral Chamber were Security y Work and production. Furthermore, in a new popular consultation work, citizens chose the third topic that will be brought to the table: Human Development, housing and environmental protection.

The UBA Law School will be the setting for the second presidential debate

The debate will be broadcast live and direct from 9 p.m. and the journalists selected to moderate the second presidential debate are Marcelo Bonelli (TN), Mariana Veron (Canal 9), Sergio Roulier (Canal 3 of Rosario) and Soledad Larghi (America). All were selected through a draw organized by the National Electoral Chamber.

Once again, the face to face will be broadcast by all radio and television signals of RTASE Therefore, it can be followed by Public TV, National Radio (870 AM), Canal 12 and the CNE YouTube channel. Furthermore, private channels that want to replicate it may do so, as long as they have accessibility mechanisms such as sign language and subtitling.

In the event that the presidential candidate who comes out first in the general elections of this October 22 does not manage to exceed 45% of the votes, or 40% with a difference of 10 percentage points over the second, there will be runoff. In that case, there will be a third debate on Sunday, November 12, at the same headquarters of the UBA.

Will the right of reply and cross-questioning be maintained?

The format of the second presidential debate will be the same as the first. This means that the five candidates will have one minute of presentation and two minutes at the beginning of each thematic axis to expand on their proposals. Throughout the entire debate, each one will have five opportunities to request the right to reply.

These five chances are renewed in this second instance, and the candidates will have 45 seconds in each one to respond to another participant when they feel addressed. Also they will close the microphones again and they will insist on respect for the regulations, a limit that was not so much demanded in the debates of candidates for vice president and head of the Buenos Aires Government, which led to instances of greater tension and controversy.

It will also be repeated cross question block, where each candidate can ask, in 15 seconds, a question to each opponent, who will have 45 seconds to respond. Finally, each participant will have a closing minute at the end of the debate.

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