SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Xinhua/APP): South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s approval rating fell 1.3 percentage points from a week earlier to 67.8 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
The negative assessment on Lee’s conduct of state affairs increased 2.0 percentage points to 31.2 percent, according to computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) by local pollster Flower Research.
The ruling liberal Democratic Party’s support advanced 0.7 percentage points to 55.3 percent, while the conservative opposition People Power Party’s approval score gained 0.4 percentage points to 28.9 percent.
Support rate for both the minor left-leaning Rebuilding Korea Party and the minor rightist New Reform Party logged 2.3 percent last week.
The pollster’s separate survey of automated response system (ARS) showed that Lee’s approval rating picked up 2.1 percentage points to 64.6 percent last week compared to the previous week.
Both the CATI and the ARS surveyed 1,007 voters from Friday to Saturday. They had plus and minus 3.1 percentage points in margin of error with a confidence level of 95 percent.