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The official election campaign for 22 days from today (15th) started ahead of the 20th presidential election on the 9th of next month.
In order to receive the people's choice, Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung is said to be a competent economic president, People's Strength candidate Yoon Seok-yeol is the president who changes tomorrow, Justice Party candidate Shim Sang-jung is a working citizen president, and People's Party candidate Ahn Cheol-su is a clean science and economic powerhouse. Each had a slogan.
On the first day of the official campaign, the candidates were busily moving across the country.
First, Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung started in Busan, went through Daegu and Daejeon, and then headed to Seoul.
Candidates Sang-Jeong Shim and Cheol-Soo Ahn, respectively, started the great campaign in Honam and Daegu and North Gyeongsang, which are called the hearts of progressives and conservatives, respectively.
Then, today, reporters Yoo Soo-hwan, Hwa Gang-yun, and Um Min-jae will tell you about the candidates' movements in turn.
<Reporter Suhwan Yoo>
At 0 am, Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung visited the export site in Busan Port at the same time as the official election campaign started.
He shouted his first message, the slogan that penetrated the campaign on the first day, and the economic president who overcomes the crisis.
[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate: The commander-in-chief of overcoming crises, a competent economic president who saves the economy, and I will definitely become a president of unification, everyone!] The
official election campaign in Busan started, following the will of former President Roh Moo-hyun, "President of Unification." ' This candidate also explained that it contains a message that it will become
[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate: What about Park Jeong-hee and Kim Dae-jung?
I will do anything to help the people, folks.]
The next campaign in Daegu also mentioned former President Park Chung-hee, emphasizing an integrated government that does not respect the faction.
The Democratic Party sternly criticized Yoon Seok-yeol, a candidate for People's Power, who mentioned the abolition of the authority to lead investigations into corruption and the justice minister, as "a declaration of war to create a republic of prosecutors without democratic control."
(Video coverage: Cho Chun-dong, Kim Nam-seong, Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Lee Seung-jin)
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<Reporter Hwa Kang-yun> Yoon
Seok-yeol, the People's Power candidate who started the official election campaign with the ceremony to launch Cheonggye Plaza in Seoul, brought to the fore the 'Judgment of the Moon Jae-in regime' .
[Yoon Seok-yeol/People's Power Presidential Candidate: Let's judge this corrupt and incompetent Democratic Party government with a regime change, everyone.] People who
have no political debt and have collapsed by enumerating the negligence, corona control failure, house price skyrocketing, nuclear phase-out policy I promised to make it right.
Candidate Yoon explained that starting the official election campaign at Cheonggye Plaza in Seoul meant ending the era of the imperial Blue House and ushering in the era of Gwanghwamun President.
In Daegu, the heart of conservatives, he stood on the podium with Hong Jun-pyo, a contender for the primary and a member of the local lawmaker, and promised regional development.
[Hong Jun-pyo / People's Power Rep.: I hope that TK, which has been neglected, will use it as an opportunity to take another leap forward.
Candidate Yoon, will you promise this?]
[Yoon Seok-yeol/People's Power Presidential Candidate: Yes, Brother!]
At the party level, Kim Hye-kyung, the spouse of Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung, focused on the suspicion of private use of an official car and the misappropriation of public funds, and called for an investigation into Mr. Kim.
(Video coverage: Kim Heung-gi and Kang Dong-cheol, video editing: Park Jeong-sam)
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<Reporter Eom Min-jae>
Justice Party candidate Shim Sang-jung held a presidential campaign in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, saying that Honam is the number one democracy.
Ilsung was a political shift toward the future beyond the old two-party system.
[Sim Sang-jung / Justice Party Presidential Candidate: I stand alone in front of the huge barrier of bipartisan politics, but I will firmly block the Republic of Korea's reverse run.]
Reform and progressive, saying that candidate Lee Jae-myung as well as candidate Yoon Seok-yeol, who lacks qualifications and abilities, are only in the hands of conservative vested interests. He appealed to the people of Honam to support him.
Ahn Cheol-soo, the candidate of the People's Party, chose Daegu, the core of the opposition's support, for his first campaign.
He put forth as his first message the entry of a second science and technology and the building of a just and fair country.
[Ahn Cheol-soo/People's Party Presidential Candidate: In the two-out situation at the end of the 9th, I will become the 4th hitter to save the Republic of Korea and hit a home run.]
He emphasized that he would create a second miracle on the Han River by visiting the birthplace of former President Park Chung-hee .
In this regard, I pressured candidate Yoon Seok-yeol, "Please reveal your decision as soon as possible."
(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)