President Moon's National Approval Rating at 44.8%, Unchanged from Last Week... Negative Evaluation Rises [Realmeter]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Nahum] President Moon Jae-in's approval rating for his administration remained steady with no change from the previous week.

According to Realmeter's survey conducted on behalf of tbs from the 20th to the 22nd, the positive evaluation of President Moon's administration was recorded at 44.8%, the same as the previous week's weekly aggregate, the agency announced on the 23rd. Negative evaluations rose by 1.0 percentage point to 52.0%, the highest figure this year. The gap between positive and negative evaluations was 7.2 percentage points, which is outside the margin of error.

Positive evaluations notably increased in Daegu·Gyeongbuk (up 7.6 percentage points), Busan·Gyeongnam (up 3.3 percentage points), people in their 30s (up 12.1 percentage points), and the unemployed (up 9.8 percentage points).

On the other hand, negative evaluations rose significantly in Gyeonggi·Incheon (up 4.7 percentage points), Chungcheong region (up 4.7 percentage points), people in their 60s (up 8.1 percentage points), people in their 20s (up 5.3 percentage points), and the politically unaffiliated group (up 13.9 percentage points).

Regarding party support, the Democratic Party of Korea rose by 2.3 percentage points from the previous week to 37.6%, while the United Future Party increased by 1.6 percentage points to 32.6%. Notably, the United Future Party's support reached its highest level in four months since the third week of March (33.6%).

Other parties recorded the following: the Justice Party fell by 1.7 percentage points to 4.2%, the Open Democratic Party dropped by 0.7 percentage points to 3.9%, and the People’s Party decreased by 0.7 percentage points to 3.7%.

This survey contacted 31,498 voters aged 18 and over nationwide, with a final 1,509 respondents completing the survey, resulting in a response rate of 4.8%. The sampling error is ±2.5 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. For more details, refer to the Central Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.

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