Approval for President Lee Jae-myung's performance of state affairs has fallen for eight consecutive weeks... Reached lowest level since taking office

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Oh Kyu-jin = A public opinion poll was released on the 7th showing that President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating for his performance of state affairs has fallen for eight consecutive weeks, hitting a new low since he took office.

As a result of a survey of 2,510 people aged 18 or older nationwide conducted by Realmeter at the request of the Energy Economy Newspaper from the 31st of last month to the 4th of this month, the positive evaluation of President Lee's performance of state affairs was calculated to be 37.4%, down 1.5 percentage points from last week.

Negative evaluations were 59.5%, up 0.8 percentage points from last week, and outpaced positive evaluations, outside the margin of error for six consecutive weeks. The proportion of respondents who responded ‘I don’t know’ was 3.1%.

Realmeter analyzed, “As controversies surrounding ministerial candidates such as preferential treatment and allegations of cancellation of indictment, as well as controversy over a U-turn on the real estate tax reform plan, negative public opinion regarding personnel and policy credibility spread, leading to a decline in approval ratings.”

In a political party approval survey conducted on the 3rd and 4th among 1,001 people over the age of 18 nationwide, the Democratic Party of Korea recorded 41.8% and the People Power Party recorded 37.6%.

The Democratic Party fell by 1.3 percentage points compared to the last survey, and the People Power Party fell by 0.1 percentage points.

Realmeter said, "The Democratic Party's controversy over the qualifications of the (minister) candidate, the war of nerves over the alliance with the Fatherland Innovation Party, and internal strife within the party over the leadership's ethics inspection served as a factor in the decline in approval ratings."

Regarding the People Power Party, the interpretation was, "We continued our offensive against government personnel and policy noise, but as we were not able to reap sufficient returns, we moved sideways at a similar level to the previous week."

The approval rating of the Fatherland Reform Party was 4.5%, the New Reform Party was 2.3%, followed by the Progressive Party (1.3%). Other political parties accounted for 2.1%, and independents accounted for 10.5%.

Both surveys were conducted using a wireless automated response method.

The sampling error of the survey on the approval of the president's performance of state affairs was ±2.0%p at the 95% confidence level, and the response rate was 4.2%. The response rate for the party support survey was ±3.1%p at a 95% confidence level of sampling error, and the response rate was 3.8%. For more information, please refer to the National Election Opinion Survey Deliberation Committee website.