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SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, European Left party candidate for European Commission president, held a televised debate in Brussels on Thursday with his rivals.

Thursday's discussion in the Parliament in Brussels included Alexis Tsipras, the lead candidate for the European United Left and the only participant outside the European mainstream, the Wall Street Journal writes.

He was undoubtedly the big winner of the debate, according to the results of the first poll published so far.

EuropeDecides on line voting gave him 52% of the votes for the position, followed by Guy Verhofstadt, who received 28%.

In this on-line voting, Junker received 3%, Schultz 6% and Keller 11% in people's preferences.

Moreover, Alexis Tsipras was the “favorite” candidate among twitter users, who received 19,481 tweets, followed by Schultz with 17,118 tweets.

The candidates trotted out their well-known arguments on the euro crisis, unemployment and refugee policy wore t