Kim Young-sam
In response, Roh made a speech on 29 June promising a wide program of reforms. Chief among them were a new, more democratic constitution and popular election of the president. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung (both of whom later became presidents), were unable to overcome their differences and split the vote, in spite of the first female presidential candidate withdrawing from the race to support Kim Young-sam against Roh. This enabled Roh to win by a narrow margin and become the country's first cleanly elected president on 16 December 1987 and was inaugurated as President on 25 February 1988.