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Starting his election campaign officially from Wednesday in Busan, Ulsan and Seoul, Grand National Party presidential candidate Lee Hoi-chang criticized his opponent Roh Moo-hyun of the Millennium Democratic Party saying he stood in the center of a corrupt administration and does not deserve to talk about new politics. Lee said the 2002 Presidential Election is the people's judgment on the last five years of the Kim Dae-jung administration. He added Roh was radical and sometimes destructive and unstable, and didn't know how society was changing.
Roh responded in Daejeon, Busan and Daegu that the GNP took and abused the government budget when it was in power and Lee himself was suspected of corruption scandals and did not deserve to talk about a crackdown on corruption. Roh said the election was about electing an uncorrupted candidate first before judging a corrupted administration, adding he would end old politics.
Meanwhile, National Alliance 21 Chung Mong-joon refused to answer whether he would accept the post of MDP Election Committee head or not, repeatedly demanding the decentralization of the presidential system as the top priority of policy cooperation with the MDP.
(Choi Jun-seok, jschoi@chosun.com )
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