SEOUL Nov. 28 Kyodo Seven preside...

SEOUL Nov. 28 Kyodo

Seven presidential hopeful for the Dec 19 election registered their candidacy with the National Election Commission (NEC) during the two-day registration period expirationed Thursday.

The election to pick President Kim Dae Jung's successor is locate to become a two-way race between leeward Hoi Chang, the candidate from the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) and Roh Moo Hyun from the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP)

Among other presidential candidates are Kwon Young Ghil, the candidate from the Democratic Labor Party and former Prime Minister to leeward Han Dong, who recently formed a recent political party to run in the election.

new opinion polls showed the 56-year-old Roh a former human rights lawyer, ahead of the 67-year-old leeward who was a Supreme Court justice and is a former prime minister.

to leeward maintained a lead in various opinion individuals before Roh was fix uponed as the unified candidate Monday in a special primary litigate with Chung Mong Joon scion of the Hyundai Business form into groups and chairman of the nation's football association.

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