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Registration for the 20th presidential election closed today (14th).

About 5 hours later, from 0 am tomorrow to midnight on March 8, the candidates will have an official election campaign for the next 22 days.

Along with major party candidates such as Lee Jae-myung, Yoon Seok-yeol, Shim Sang-jung, and Ahn Cheol-soo, other party candidates, including Basic Income Party candidate Jun-ho Oh, also cast their votes side by side.

To summarize the remaining schedule, ballots will be printed on the 28th of this month, early voting will be held for two days from March 4th, and the main voting will be held on the 9th.

The three remaining courtroom TV debates or the proposal to unify the opposition candidates thrown in by Candidate Cheol-soo Ahn yesterday are considered as major variables that will influence votes.



So, in today's news, let's first look at the movement surrounding unification, which both the ruling and opposition parties are keen on.



This is Hwa Kang-yoon, staff reporter.



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A day after a large proposal to unify the public opinion poll by Candidate Ahn Cheol-soo came, today, both the People's Power and the People's Party passed the ball, saying that the urgent is the other side.



[Kwon Young-se / General Power of People's Election Headquarters: We are not so comfortable with the part of polling.

And we think that it is not a good method.]



[Lee Tae-gyu/People's Party General Election Headquarters (CBS Radio): Reverse selection We keep talking about it, but the fact that there is no provision to prevent adverse selection is the method of the people's power.

Candidate Ahn Cheol-soo lost by that method…

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Candidate Seok-Yeol Yoon remained silent for the second day.



[Yoon Seok-yeol/People's Power Presidential Candidate: I talked all about the issue of opposition party integration yesterday, and I have no further words to say.]



Candidate Ahn also countered that candidate Yoon should answer the question about how to unify the candidates.



In the midst of this, it is known that a review report related to unification was made within the People's Party before Ahn Cheol-soo, candidate of the People's Party, proposed to unify the opinion poll yesterday.



A key opposition figure who saw this report said that the core of the report was quick and concise unification, and that the poll method was not mentioned here.



Earlier this month, it is known that former president Kim Han-gil, who served as co-representative of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy with Ahn, spoke on the phone several times with Ahn.



In the phone call, former CEO Kim is said to have mentioned the opinion polls, especially the adverse selection clause, and pointed out that this clause worked against the Seoul mayor's by-election in April last year.



The People's Power thinks that a negotiation is possible after seeing that Candidate Ahn proposed a unified opinion poll through internal and external reviews and contacts. I am unable to find it.



(Video coverage: Kim Heung-gi, Yang Doo-won, video editing: Won-hee Won)