A week after last Wednesday's meeting, representatives of all the presidential candidates' staffs will meet this afternoon to follow up on the discussion of holding televised debates (debate).
According to the Cyprus Times, representatives of the staffs of Nikos Christodoulides, Konstantinos Christofides and Christou Christou, who did not attend the previous meeting, which was held at the initiative of the staff of George Kolokasidis, will also be present at today's meeting.
According to reports, there is a common understanding on the need to hold debates ahead of elections, but all agree that there are practical difficulties that make it almost impossible to hold a debate with all the candidates present, which exceeds ten.
From a preliminary discussion, the idea of holding a debate between the main contenders for the presidency, supported by major parties (Averof Neophytou, Andreas Mavroyiannis and Nikos Christodoulides) with one of the others taking turns. The interest of the TV stations to participate in so many TV contests and, more importantly, to broadcast them, remains unresolved.
Reportedly, apart from RIK, which has shown interest in organising and covering the debates, private TV stations have indicated that there cannot be too many debates.
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