The date of the first bilateral TV discussion is reconsidered... Justice and People's Party opposition

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The two parties are negotiating again today (19th) over the date of the first bilateral TV debate between Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung and People's Strength presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol. The Justice Party and People's Party, who were excluded from the debate, are strongly opposed.

Reporter Ki-tae Kim reports.

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The Democratic Party and the People's Power Working Group will have a meeting this morning to discuss the bilateral TV debate schedule.

The issue is the date and time of the discussion.

The Democratic Party announced yesterday the date and time of the bilateral TV debate between Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung and People's Strength candidate Yoon Seok-yeol.

[Park Jumin / Democratic Party member: Only the date (January) will be held on the 27th. It was only decided to hold a 120-minute bilateral discussion from 10 p.m. to 12 p.m.] The

Democratic Party emphasized the fact that the ruling and opposition parties agreed in writing to hold a bilateral TV debate 'before the Lunar New Year holidays' on the 13th.

However, about three hours later, the People's Strength Working Group raised an objection.

The 27th is just the date that broadcasters sent in the opinion letter, and insisted that the right to decide the date rests with the bipartisan negotiators.

At the same time, on the 31st, the eve of the Lunar New Year, he counter-proposed to hold a discussion between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.

He said this in relation to the point that it was inconsistent with the agreement before the Lunar New Year holiday.

[Seong Il-jong / People's Strength Councilor: The day before New Year's Eve, all generations gather to have dinner, so (January) 31st would be the most appropriate.

I'm thinking.]

The Justice Party and the People's Party strongly opposed the bilateral TV debate except for Shim Sang-jung and Ahn Cheol-soo.

The Justice Party defined the bilateral debate as election campaign collusion and said that it would "block it by all means", and the People's Party is considering filing an application for an injunction to ban broadcasting to the court.