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Presidential Campaign Starts Officially Today in S. Korea

The official presidential race for the 16th presidential election will start from Wednesday and last for the next 22 days until December 18, the election date. People who want to be officially recognized as presidential candidates must register their names before Wednesday.


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The official presidential race for the 16th presidential election will start from Wednesday and last for the next 22 days until December 18, the election date. People who want to be officially recognized as presidential candidates must register their names before Wednesday.

Grand National Party presidential candidate Lee Hoi-chang is planning to visit Jongno and Myeong-dong in Seoul, right after registering his name as an official candidate, and also Ulsan and Busan for a campaign tour on the street from Thursday.

In advance, Lee resigned from his lawmaker's position, and visited a symposium to discuss policy for women. He said during the symposium, "Since the GNP has many rational and liberal members, the upcoming election would not be a confrontation between liberals and conservatives." He continued voters would make a valued judgment whether to select a successor to the current administration's debts and inheritance, or make a power change to build a new Korea.

Millennium Democratic Party presidential candidate Roh Moo-hyun will start his campaign at Busan station after signing on as an official candidate, he will move to Daejeon later to attend a campaign committee chairman's meeting. Roh said, "Selection of the single candidate was the strict order of people to create new politics while removing the old tainted one. In this election, I will eliminate any infringement of rules and illicit unions, and also regional discrimination and confrontation."

It is expected that some 10 more people in addition to Lee and Roh, Democratic Labor Party's Kwon Young-kil and former prime minister Lee Han-dong, and Jang Se-dong will officially register as presidential candidates

Source: Agencies






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