What you should know about the presidential debate in Argentina

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(CNN) - The six candidates who seek to manage the fate of Argentina face this Sunday face to face in the first presidential debate. Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández, the two favorites, will talk to the other four applicants about international relations, economics and finance, human rights, diversity, gender, education and health.

Where and when?

The first presidential debate in Argentina will be this Sunday, October 13, in the Paraninfo room of the National University of the Coast, based in the City of Santa Fe. It will begin at 9:00 p.m., Argentina time, and it is estimated that it will end at 23:15 Then there will be a second debate, on Sunday, October 20, in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

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Who will be the moderators?

Journalists María Laura Santillán, Rodolfo Barili, Gisela Vallone and Guillermo Andino.

What will be the times of the debate?

The candidates will have 45 seconds to present themselves and two minutes in their exhibitions, without any interruptions. To question or answer, they will have 30 seconds. At the end of the debate, they will have a minute to conclude.

Who will face?

Alberto Fernández (Front of All), Mauricio Macri (Together for change), Roberto Lavagna (Federal Consensus), Nicolás del Caño (Left Front), José Gómez Centurión (US Front) and José Luis Espert (Awakening Front).

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How do they get to the debate?

Alberto Fernández: made a big difference in the primary elections against the current president, Mauricio Macri. His campaign has opted for a very measured strategy, without cabinet announcements and almost without the presence of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Mauricio Macri: he will arrive at the debate with the objective of reversing the difference of more than 15 points that Fernández took in the August primaries. Macri is confident that he can turn the election around.

Roberto Lavagna: he took more than two million votes in the August primaries and the son of the presidential candidate, the national deputy Marco Lavagna, told CNN Radio: “The feeling that Mauricio Macri cannot win is clear: the only ones that we can beat Kirchnerism is us ”.

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Nicolás del Caño: in his speech he affirms “there has been an attempt by the Government to install an early ballot,” he told CNN Radio, and that he wants to hyperpolarize the election: “it is false that there are no alternatives” to the two majority forces , Together for Change and the Front of All. His proposal is not focused on the issue of debt to the Monetary Fund - "there is no IMF-oriented plan that has benefited the popular majorities" - but claims to find solutions "hunger, employment, retirement" and create a “single state bank to prevent capital leaks,” he told CNN Radio.

José Gómez Centurión: The NOS Front candidate told CNN Radio that in the October 27 elections he will reach 5 or 5.5 percent of the vote. His expectation is, then, to win four seats in Congress. "We are a space that came to stay, thinking in 2021 and in 2023 we will insist again with a presidential candidacy," he concluded.

José Luis Espert: The Awakening Front candidate told CNN Radio that President Macri should accept the coup he received in the primaries and stop "doing so much campaign" and rule "as a statesman given the coup he has received." Espert says that Macri should reach “an agreement with the opposition, at least with Alberto Fernández, for adequate transit” by December 10.

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