President Yoon Suk Yeol’s approval rating fell for the fifth consecutive week to 36.3 percent, a poll showed Monday.
The positive assessment fell 0.2 percentage point from a week ago, while the negative assessment of Yoon’s performance rose 0.6 percentage point to 60.7 percent, according to a survey by Realmeter, conducted from Monday to Friday last week and commissioned by the Energy Economy News Daily.
Yoon’s approval rating has been on a downtrend since the fourth week of February, the survey showed.
The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, with a credibility rate of 95 percent.
In a separate poll of parties, the ruling People Power Party (PPP) received 35.4 percent support, while the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) had 43.1 percent support.
The latest rating is a 1.7 percentage-point drop for the PPP and a 0.3 percentage-point rise for the DP, and marks the first time in two months the DP’s approval rating exceeded the PPP outside of the margin of error.
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nor parties, the New Reform Party of former PPP leader Lee Jun-seok led polls with 4.5 percent support, followed by the New Future Party (Saemirae) of former Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon with 3.6 percent.
The share of respondents who said they do not support any party was down 1 percentage point to 4 percent.
For proportional votes, the PPP’s satellite party had the highest support with 30.2 percent, followed by the Korea Innovation Party, a new party created by disgraced former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, with 29.5 percent.
The survey on political parties was conducted Thursday and Friday, and has a confidence rate of 95 percent with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Source: Yonhap News Agency