President Moon's Approval Rating Rises to 40%... Democratic Party 34% vs People Power Party 21% [Gallup]

Increasing Criticism of COVID-19 Response... Decrease in Mention of Personnel Issues

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] A public opinion poll showed a slight increase in President Moon Jae-in's approval rating for his state affairs management. The declining trend in positive evaluations and the rising trend in negative evaluations of the president's job performance over the past month have stopped.

Korea Gallup announced that the positive evaluation of President Moon's job performance, based on a survey conducted from the 15th to the 17th, rose by 2 percentage points from the previous week to 40%. The negative evaluation also decreased by 2 percentage points from the previous week to 52%.

The reasons for the positive evaluation of the president's job performance were ▲response to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) (29%) ▲prosecution reform (11%) ▲overall good performance (7%), while the reasons for the negative evaluation were ▲real estate policy (20%) ▲overall inadequacy (12%) ▲insufficient response to COVID-19 (11%) ▲conflict between the Ministry of Justice and prosecution (8%) ▲lack of solutions to economic/livelihood issues (7%). Compared to last week, criticism of insufficient COVID-19 response increased, while mentions of personnel issues decreased.

Party support was surveyed as follows: the Democratic Party of Korea 34%, People Power Party 21%, Justice Party 5%, People’s Party 4%, and Open Democratic Party 3%. Support for major parties fluctuated within 1 percentage point compared to the previous week. The proportion of respondents with no party affiliation was 31%.

This survey contacted 5,849 voters aged 18 and over nationwide, with a final 1,000 respondents completing the survey, resulting in a 17% response rate. The sampling error is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. For more details, refer to the website of the Central Election Survey Deliberation Commission.

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