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Realmeter conducted a survey on job performance satisfaction among 16 heads of metropolitan organizations across the country on the 10th, and Gyeongsangnam-do Governor Park Wan-soo maintained second place in job performance satisfaction as evaluated by local residents among the nine popularly elected provincial and provincial governors nationwide.
Gyeongsangnam-do Governor Park Wan-soo maintained second place in job performance satisfaction evaluated by local residents among 16 provincial and provincial governors nationwide in the 9th popularly elected election.
Realmeter, a public opinion polling agency, announced on the 11th that Governor Park ranked second in a job performance satisfaction survey of 16 heads of metropolitan organizations across the country released on the 10th.
Governor Park's job performance satisfaction (50.7%) decreased by 1.3 percentage points compared to the previous month, but he was evaluated as having the second highest satisfaction level after Gyeongbuk Governor Lee Cheol-woo (55.8%).
Governor Park also ranked second in the relative index of political party indicators, scoring 120.7 points.
The party index relative index is an indicator that shows the degree of support that local government heads receive compared to their party's supporters.
If it is over 100, it means that the individual leader's job performance evaluation is higher than the local approval rating of his or her political party.
From August 28th to 31st, Realmeter surveyed 14,400 voters aged 18 or older across the country (900 in each city/province) to evaluate the job performance of local government heads through wired and wireless random answering calls.
The sampling error for each metropolitan group is ±3.3% points at the 95% confidence level, and the response rate is 3.4%.

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