2024-04-29 17:50:02
The results of a public opinion poll were released on the 28th showing that the approval rating for President Yoon Seok-yeol‘s performance of state affairs was in the low 30% range, the lowest in over a year and eight months. The approval ratings for the two major parties have moved within the margin of error for three weeks, with the Democratic Party of Korea moving sideways and the People Power Party declining.
According to the results of an evaluation of President Yoon’s state administration performance among 2,518 voters aged 18 or older across the country from the 22nd to the 26th by Realmeter, a public opinion polling company, at the request of the Energy Economy Newspaper, 30.2% gave a positive evaluation and 66.9% gave a negative evaluation. recorded.
The positive evaluation of President Yoon’s performance in state affairs fell 2.1 percentage points (p) from 32.6% last week and remained in the low 30% range. It was the lowest in over a year and eight months since the first week of August 2022 (29.3%).
Positive evaluations rose in Gwangju/Jeolla (2.2%p), unemployed/retired/others (2.6%p), students (5.2%p), and agriculture, forestry and fisheries (5.4%p). Negative evaluations were in Seoul (5.0%p), Busan, Ulsan, Gyeongnam (5.0%p), Incheon, Gyeonggi (3.2%p), Daejeon, Sejong, Chungcheong (2.7%p), middle class (3.9%p), and self-employed people. (6.4%p), office/management/professional (6.0%p), and housewife (7.0%p).
In the political party support map conducted by the same company on 1,004 voters over the age of 18 across the country over two days from the 25th to the 26th, the People Power Party was 34.1%, the Democratic Party 35.1%, the Fatherland Innovation Party 13.5%, the New Reform Party 6.2%, and the New Future 1.8%. , followed by the Progressive Party at 1.6%.
Compared to the previous week, the People Power Party fell by 1.7 percentage points and the Democratic Party rose by 0.1 percentage points, widening the gap between the two major parties from 0.8 percentage points to 1.0 percentage points. The Fatherland Reform Party recorded 13.5%, down 0.9 percentage points from the previous week, and the New Reform Party rose 1.4 percentage points to enter the 6% range (6.2%).
Realmeter used the first meeting between President Yoon and Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, scheduled to be held this afternoon, as a barometer that will determine the future direction of approval ratings. A Realmeter official analyzed, “The president’s approval rating maintained a downward trend throughout April and became entrenched around the 30% level.”
He said, “The ‘leadership meeting’, which was accepted as a symbol of cooperation between the ruling and opposition parties and a change in the tone of government affairs, did not serve as a significant driving factor in changes in government indicators due to repeated difficulties in the working-level negotiation process.” He continued, “Although bilateral talks are scheduled, the ‘aftereffects of the general election’, ‘risk of parliamentary confrontation’, and ‘special prosecution offensive by the pan-opposition group’ will never create an optimistic environment for the president.” “The point to watch is what kind of development the president will consider in the face of the two-faced tactics of the main opposition party,” he said.
Also, regarding political party support, “The People Power Party set its course as a ‘management-type emergency committee’, but faced with ‘difficulty in appointing emergency committee chairperson’, ‘internal conflict between elected regions and factions’, and ‘issue of revision of party representative primary rules’, compared to the previous week. “It has declined somewhat,” he predicted, “and the aftermath will continue for a while even after the emergency committee is formed.”
Meanwhile, this survey was conducted using wireless (97%) and wired (3%) automated response telephone (ARS) survey methods. The response rates for the political party approval survey and the presidential performance evaluation survey were 2.8% and 2.7%, respectively, and the sampling error was ±2.0%p and ±3.1%p, respectively, at the 95% confidence level. For more information, please refer to the National Election Opinion Survey Deliberation Committee website.
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2024-04-29 17:50:02