Brazil’s Bishops to Host a TV Debate of Candidates for Presidency

Vatican Insider: The bishops will ask questions to the presidential candidates in person. And in a very particular place: the building of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida. It is an initiative announced in these days by the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil in view of the elections that will take place on the 5th of October.

The debate will take place on Tuesday 16th of September at 9.30pm and will last two hours; it will be broadcast live by eight Catholic networks and at least 230 radios and Internet portals. Together with the outgoing president, Dilma Rousseff, who is running for reelection, the other six main candidates will also be present, among whom the economist Aécio Neves da Cunha and the environmentalist Marina Silva are the most substantial challengers according to the polls.  More on this here.