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\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 President Lee Jae Myung speaks at the first anti-corruption policy council of the People’s Sovereign Government held at Cheong Wa Dae on the 21st. [Blue House Press Photo Reporters] <\/p>\n \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 President Lee Jae Myung speaks at the first anti-corruption policy council of the People’s Sovereign Government held at Cheong Wa Dae on the 21st. [Blue House Press Photo Reporters] <\/p>\n
President Lee Jae Myung’s approval rating has fallen for six consecutive weeks, hitting a new low, but barely maintained the 40% mark, a poll showed on the 24th.<\/p>\n
In addition, the Democratic Party of Korea’s approval rating has fallen sharply, while the power of the people has risen, narrowing the gap between the two parties’ approval ratings to within the margin of error.<\/p>\n
According to a survey of 2,026 voters aged 18 or older nationwide from the 18th to the 21st by pollster Realmeter at the request of the Energy Economy Newspaper, 40.2% of the respondents said President Lee’s performance in state affairs. The figure is down 2.8 percentage points from the previous week.<\/p>\n
Negative assessment rose 2.8 percentage points to 56.9 percent. The gap between positive and negative evaluations was 16.7 percentage points, out of the margin of error. “I don’t know well” was 3.0 percent.<\/p>\n
President Lee’s approval rating has been on the decline for six weeks. In particular, the decline was noticeable among some traditional supporters and middle-aged and elderly people.<\/p>\n
By region, positive evaluations fell 8.8 percentage points in Gwangju and Jeonbuk, South Jeolla Province, showing the largest decline. It also fell in Daegu and Gyeongbuk (-3.1 percentage points), Daejeon, Sejong and Chungcheong (-2.7 percentage points), and Incheon and Gyeonggi (-2.3 percentage points).<\/p>\n
By age, it fell 8.2 percentage points from those in their 70s and older, and also from those in their 50s (-4.7 percentage points), 30s (-4.4 percentage points), and 20s (-2.4 percentage points). On the other hand, the figure rose 3.2 percentage points in the 60s.<\/p>\n
Realmeter interpreted, “Due to the controversy over the housing supply at Yongsan Park, distrust in real estate policies has increased, and the separation of conservatives and the elderly over 70 years old seems to have expanded due to the conflict between the ruling and opposition parties over the proposal of Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae, the promotion of constitutional amendment, and security concerns over the reduction of the Korea-U.S. joint training.”<\/p>\n
In terms of party support, the Democratic Party’s decline was even greater. In a survey of 1,009 voters aged 18 or older nationwide from the 20th to the 21st, the Democratic Party of Korea was 41.9 percent, down 6.0 percentage points from the previous week. On the other hand, the power of the people rose 4.5 percentage points to 37.6 percent.<\/p>\n
As a result, the gap in approval ratings between the two parties has narrowed to 4.3 percentage points. It’s a close race within the margin of error.<\/p>\n
The Cho Kuk Innovation Party was then tallied at 3.9%, the Progressive Party at 2.3%, and the Reform New Party at 2.0%. Other parties accounted for 2.5 percent and non-partisan groups 9.7 percent.<\/p>\n
This survey was conducted in an automatic response (ARS) method using wireless (100%) randomized extraction numbers. The response rate of the Presidential Performance Evaluation Survey is 3.2% and the sampling error is \u00b12.2%P at the 95% confidence level. The response rate of the party support survey is 2.9% and the sampling error is \u00b13.1%P at the 95% confidence level.<\/p>\n
For more information, please visit the website of the Central Election Public Opinion Review Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 President Lee Jae Myung speaks at the first anti-corruption policy council of the People’s Sovereign Government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[65313,62610,51643,51640,31,146,51266,33],"class_list":["post-130305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-anti-corruption-policy-council","tag-blue-house-press-photo","tag-confidence-level","tag-error-range","tag-korea","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-realmeter","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}