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“As soon as Vitorino Silva’s candidacy was presented, RTP sought to expand them face to face in a joint organization with SIC and TVI. As it was not possible, RTP proposed six more face-to-face to all the candidates, to be held next week, ”said António José Teixeira, director of information for the public channel. According to the same official, these debates “will not overlap any of the other debates already planned”, which will take place at 22:45, on RTP3. Debates with the candidate will take place between January 4 and 9.
On the other hand, on the 12th, at 10:00 pm, RTP will hold “a debate with all the Páteo da Galé candidates. It will be the only debate with all the candidates on Portuguese television “, and this Thursday the public channel will conclude” the cycle of interviews with all the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic. “
In turn, the SIC “will not change the debate model, decided several weeks ago, as is necessary in such a complex process in which debates must be held before the official launch of the campaign,” said Ricardo Costa, information director channel.
“Naturally, if there is, in principle, only one more candidate, the SIC will give it relevance, ensuring the coverage that it considers editorially relevant,” he concluded.
TVI made a similar decision, with an official source from the Media Capital channel saying that the “joint proposal presented by the three televisions (15 debates, at a rate of two per day, to be held in the space of just one week) had, as an assumption , not only achieving the difficult task of hosting 15 debates in a short period of time, but also editorial criteria, established by law and from which TVI does not abdicate ”.
For TVI, “it was also clear that, in addition to these 15 debates, all televisions would be free to organize other models of debate or opt for other forms of journalistic coverage of the different candidates”, underlining the same source that “the debates are not the only way to cover an electoral campaign and TVI plans to make a journalistic coverage of this campaign, giving voice to all the candidates, without ignoring any, but without ever renouncing its editorial criteria ”.
Thus, “no further debate is expected” on the channel, which aims to maintain the same criteria: “Editorial relevance, weight in polls and candidacies with relevant parliamentary support.”
“TVI is, as always, available to clarify the editorial criteria that guide its elections and can guarantee that the candidate Vitorino Silva, like all those who stand in the elections, will have the journalistic coverage that TVI considers adequate.” , concluded the same source.
On December 26, it was announced that Vitorino Silva and the current and reelected head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will have a televised debate on January 20, on Porto Canal.
Speaking to the Lusa agency, “Tino” (Vitorino Silva) thanked the President of the Republic for his availability to exchange ideas, despite the fact that the other televisions “closed the door.”
In the social network Twitter, the information director of Porto Canal, Tiago Girão, had already considered “essential to hold debates among all the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic.”
For Lusa, Tiago Girão said that Porto Canal “has already contacted all the candidates and is already scheduling the debates between Vitorino Silva and the other candidates for the Presidency of the Republic.”
