Overview

• The 2015 debut debate featured Mauricio Macri, Sergio Massa, Nicolás del Caño, Margarita Stolbizer and Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, with Daniel Scioli declining to participate.
• The event took place at the UBA Law School’s main auditorium and was broadcast simultaneously on two television channels.
• Macri and Scioli later met in a runoff debate on November 15, 2015, completing the campaign’s face-offs.
• Congress enacted Law 27.337 in 2016, requiring presidential candidates who clear the PASO threshold to take part in public debates, with subsequent editions held through the 2023 election.
• Anniversary pieces also recall the 1878 congressional funding of the Conquest of the Desert, the 1917 birth of Violeta Parra, the 1970 death of Janis Joplin, the 2009 death of Mercedes Sosa, and World Animal Day.