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Moon, Ahn Kick off Presidential Race, Kim Chong-in to Declare Bid

News2017-04-05
Moon, Ahn Kick off Presidential Race, Kim Chong-in to Declare Bid

The presidential race has begun in earnest as former cochairman of the People’s Party Ahn Cheol-soo has been chosen as the party’s presidential nominee.
 
In his acceptance speech on Tuesday, Ahn said he will strive to become a president for the people.
  
The Democratic Party’s former emergency committee head Kim Chong-in on Wednesday will make his presidential bid official.
  
It is expected that the 76-year-old politician will seek an alliance to form a unified government with both the conservative and progressive blocs.
 
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee Moon Jae-in has decided to create an election committee led by DP Chairwoman Choo Mi-ae.
 
Moon’s competitors during the presidential primaries, including South Chungcheong Governor Ahn Hee-jung and Seongnam Mayor Lee Jae-myung, will also join the election committee.
 
Liberty Korea candidate Hong Joon-pyo on Tuesday launched his regional election headquarters for the Daegu and North Gyeongsang province.

Hong also visited the birth home of late former President Park Chung-hee on Tuesday to symbolize that he is the proper successor of the conservative camp.

The Bareun Party candidate Yoo Sung-min on Tuesday told reporters it is nonsense for him and Hong to field a single candidate amid rising speculations of the two conservative candidates cooperating.

He said negotiations with Hong about the single candidacy would make him an unworthy candidate. 

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