The 20th presidential election is now a week away.
YTN delivers the election news every moment in a special studio set up in the National Assembly.
The last courtroom TV debate is held tonight, and the movement to unify the candidates continues until the last minute.
Connect with Parliament. Reporter Jang-won!
[기자]
Yes, this is the YTN National Assembly Studio.
[앵커]
Assistant reporter, we have a TV discussion tonight.
Shall we anticipate what kind of workshop will come and go?
[기자]
Yes, the TV debate will be held for 2 hours from 8pm tonight.
This is the last legal debate, and both the opposition and opposition candidates are working hard to prepare for the debate without an official schedule.
As in last time, four candidates are participating: Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party, who met a certain number of seats and a certain percentage of votes, Yoon Seok-yeol of the People’s Power, Shim Sang-jung of the Justice Party, and Ahn Cheol-su of the People’s Party.
Today’s discussion topic is ‘social field’, and as it is the last, a sparkly workshop is expected.
Common questions include welfare policy, financial support, and countermeasures against population cliffs, and reform measures for investigative agencies such as the prosecution and women’s policies are likely to become issues.
In addition, as in the previous discussions, negative discussions are expected to continue over suspicions of ‘Daejang-dong’ and ‘stock manipulation’ by Kim Kun-hee.
[앵커]
Although the printing of ballot papers has already begun, the movement of ‘joint unity’ continues.
New Wave candidate Kim Dong-yeon, who agreed to form a joint government with Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung, has effectively unified?
[기자]
That’s right.
Candidate Dong-yeon Kim held a press conference at 10 am.
It was not an easy decision, but I said that I would give up the presidential candidate and help candidate Lee Jae-myung.
Listen to the press conference first.
[김동연 / 새로운물결 대선 후보 : 저는 오늘부터 이재명 후보의 당선을 위해 다시 운동화 끈을 묶겠습니다. 어제 합의가 일으킨 ‘기득권 정치 타파’의 불씨가 들불로 번져가도록 더 큰 바람을 일으키겠습니다.]
After the two candidates reached an agreement on political reform tasks including reduction of the presidential term and powers and a multi-party system yesterday and issued a joint declaration, they achieved de facto unification through swift action.
There are few views that the impact on the approval rating will be huge, but it can be seen as a strategy to target middle-class voters through the move of integration.
In response, Kwon Young-se, head of the People’s Power Election Countermeasures Headquarters, evaluated that it was not significant, saying that he was not a candidate who had already been scheduled for unification.
In the midst of this, the unification of the opposition is still in the fog.
There is contact between candidates Yoon Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-soo, but there is no obvious change in the situation.
After the early voting starts the day after tomorrow, even if unification is achieved, the effect will inevitably decrease. Tomorrow is the de facto deadline, but what kind of position Candidate Ahn will take is of interest.
[앵커]
Let’s take a look at the upcoming election schedule.
From tomorrow onwards, public opinion poll results will be banned, right?
[기자]
That’s right.
Starting tomorrow, even if you do a poll, you can’t tell the outside world, and you are entering a ‘blinking’ election phase.
It’s 7:30 pm on the 9th, the day of the election, until all the main voting ends.
In order to prevent unfair and inaccurate survey results from having an impact on the election, as many of the public opinion polls conducted until today can be reported, the results of the last published survey are pouring in.
After looking at some surveys, it was found that Lee Jae-myung and Yoon Seok-yeol were competing for superiority and superiority by narrowing the margins of error.
Candidates from both sides are also encouraging early voting, as the odds are different depending on how the early voting turnout turns out.
Candidate Jae-myung Lee at a rally in Myeong-dong, Seoul yesterday, as he will vote in advance, so please recommend it to those around him.
[앵커]
As early voting starts the day after tomorrow, the struggle between the ruling and opposition parties is heating up, isn’t it?
[기자]
That’s right.
In the ultra-thin composition of a single sheet of paper, the last-minute fight is fiercer than ever.
It looks like he is risking his life to raise the approval rating as much as possible before the public opinion poll is banned tomorrow (the 3rd).
The Democratic Party attacked the votes of progressive voters by highlighting the ideological bias of candidate Yoon Seok-yeol.
Let’s listen to the remarks made at the morning meeting of General Shipbuilding Headquarters Director Woo Sang-ho.
[우상호 / 더불어민주당 총괄선거대책본부장 : 색깔론으로 대한민국의 정치를 다시 과거로 돌리고 있는 윤석열 후보는 진보진영의 유권자들이 선택할 후보는 아닙니다. 진보적인 유권자 여러분께 말씀드립니다. 이재명 후보가 새로운 대한민국의 진보적 가치를 대변하겠습니다. 도와주십시오.]
Against this, the People’s Power stimulated the votes of the supporters by claiming that candidate Lee Jae-myung is accusing a lot of people who have posted critical posts or comments on the Internet.
Let’s listen to Kwon Young-se’s remarks.
[권영세 / 국민의힘 선거대책본부장 : 드루킹을 못 쓰게 돼서 여론 조작을 못 하니까 이제 자기네들 마음에 안 들면 강제로 입을 틀어막겠다는 것 아닙니까? 이런 사람이 대통령이 되면 앞으로 이 나라가 어떻게 될지 정말 걱정스럽습니다.]
The National Assembly is interested in the fact that the opposition and opposition parties decided to read the data on Lee Jae-myung’s criminal investigation history and Yoon Seok-yeol’s immobility-related data requested by the Legislative and Judiciary Committee at 2 pm.
At the plenary session on the 25th, the Democratic Party requested data to investigate the allegations of military service evasion, and the people’s power was aimed at Lee’s allegations of juvenile offenders and fired back.
So far, it has been delivered by the National Assembly Studio.
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