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A public opinion poll was conducted on President Lee Jae-myung's administration of state affairs, and there were changes in positive and negative evaluations compared to the previous survey.
Democratic Party, down 4% points to 35%... The national power is tied at 25%.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Soo-yoon = A public opinion poll was released on the 1st showing that 43% of people evaluated President Lee Jae-myung's state administration positively.
In the National Survey (NBS) conducted by Embrain Public, K-Stat Research, Korea Research, and Korea Research on 1,000 people aged 18 or older from the 28th to 30th of last month and released on the same day, the proportion of responses that evaluated President Lee's administration positively was 43%, the same as the previous survey conducted three weeks ago.
The negative evaluation response was 50%, up 2 percentage points (p) from the last survey.
The approval rating by political party was 35% for the Democratic Party of Korea and 25% for the People Power Party. Compared to the last survey, the Democratic Party fell by 4% points, and the People Power Party remained the same.
The Fatherland Reform Party was 3%, the New Reform Party was 2%, the Progressive Party was 1%, and 32% responded that they ‘do not support any political party.’
The NBS survey was conducted through a phone interview using a mobile phone virtual number (100%), the sampling error was ±3.1%p at the 95% confidence level, and the response rate was 18.8%.
For more information, refer to the National Election Opinion Survey Deliberation Committee website.

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