The second PiliPinas Debates 2016 scheduled to be held at the Performing Arts Hall of the University of the Philippines in Cebu City will be held on Sunday, March 20, 2016.
Known as the Visayas leg or Cebu Face-Off, it is a presidential debate organized by COMELEC with TV5, Philippine Star, and BusinessWorld as media partners.
The debate will be moderated by the multi-awarded broadcast journalist and head of News 5, Luchi Cruz-Valdes.
Ed Lingao and Lourd de Veyra of News5, Philippine Star editor-in-chief Ana Marie Pamintuan, Philippine Star managing editor Marichu Villanueva, Bloomberg TV Philippines host Atty. Tony Abad and RMN DYHP Cebu commentator Atty. Ruphil Bañoc will also join as panelists.
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The “Cebu Face-Off” is the centerpiece in Bilang Pilipino program to provide Filipino voters and the general public, with the most extensive and in-depth coverage of the 2016 national elections.
Bilang Pilipino 2016 is the official handle of the Kapatid network’s elections coverage in partnership with PLDT, Smart, Cignal, Philippine Star, BusinessWorld, RadyoSingko, InterAksyon.com, and Bloomberg TV Philippines.
As part of the event, TV5 launched the Showt instant online voting platform on the Bilang Pilipino website. Online users can vote Yes or No to the candidates of their choice, users will wait for 60 seconds before they can vote again.
Watch the PiliPinas 2016 Debate-Visayas leg video below.
The format of the Visayas leg will be different from the earlier debate in Mindanao, with a panel discussion for the first half and a one-on-one tossup in the second half. The Commission on Elections said that among the issues and topics to be discussed are climate change, education, women’s rights, and health
It will also be one hour longer than the Mindanao leg, for a total of 2 hours and 20 minutes, with just 40 minutes of commercial breaks in response to the long commercial breaks in the Mindanao leg. Candidates will also have more time to answer questions posed by the moderators.
Reports said presidential candidate and senator Miriam Defensor Santiago decided to skip this debate to undertake clinical trials on a new anti-cancer pill.
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