SEOUL, Nov 22 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korean President, Moon Jae-in’s approval rating rose 2.2 percentage points over the week to 39.5 percent last week, a weekly poll showed today.
The negative assessment on Moon’s conduct of state affairs slipped 1.8 percentage points to 57.1 percent, according to the Realmeter survey.
Support for Moon’s ruling Democratic Party gained 1.8 percentage points from a week earlier to 30.3 percent last week.
The main conservative opposition People Power Party, garnered a 41.2 percent of approval score last week, down 1.3 percentage points from the previous week.
The minor centre-right People’s Party won 7.6 percent of support, trailed by the minor centre-left Open Democratic Party with 5.8 percent and the minor progressive Justice Party with 3.2 percent.
The results were based on a poll of 2,517 voters, conducted from last Monday to Friday. It had plus and minus 2 percentage points in margin of error, with a 95 percent confidence level.– NNN-YONHAP
