With the parliamentary elections two days away, rival parties headed to key battleground areas in Seoul and the nearby metropolitan regions Monday as they made their final pitch to voters after a record high turnout in the early voting. Ruling People Power Party (PPP) leader Han Dong-hoon was set to visit the southeastern parts of Gyeonggi Province that surrounds Seoul, and districts in Incheon, about 30 kilometers west of the capital, later in the day to seek voter support. The Gyeonggi and Incheon regions, which together have some 74 seats at stake, are considered a stronghold for the main opposition Democratic Party (DP). But the southeastern districts of Gyeonggi, consisting of industrial towns with relatively younger demographics, have been seen as one of the closely contested regions in this year's general elections, set for Wednesday. Han plans to also canvass in Goyang in northern Gyeonggi, and Gimpo, just west of Seoul. The PPP has made an election pledge to merge Gimpo and its adjacent cities w ith Seoul as part of a city reorganization plan. DP leader Lee Jae-myung was to focus his campaigning in Seoul. The DP said Lee will visit the key battleground districts in the central and western parts of Seoul, before heading to Incheon to show support for a DP candidate. Lee is also running for a seat in a different constituency in Incheon. On Sunday, Lee went to Seoul's southern districts of Gangnam, Seocho and Songpa, traditionally a PPP stronghold, to appeal to voters to "make a different choice" this time to "punish the incompetent government" of President Yoon Suk Yeol. The DP sees that a few constituencies in Gangnam and Seocho are worth betting on as its election forecasts showed the areas were too close to call. Source: Yonhap News Agency