The power of the people Hwang Kyo-ahn, Cheon Ha-ram, Kim Ki-hyun, and Ahn Cheol-soo, the party representative candidates (from left) greet at the Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam joint speech at the 3rd party convention held at the Busan Port International Exhibition and Convention Center in Dong-gu, Busan on the afternoon of the 14th. Senior Reporter Kim Gyeong-ho jijae @hani.co.kr
Ahead of the People’s Power 3/8 National Convention, a survey result came out on the 16th that Candidate Cheol-soo Ahn was most suitable as the next People’s Power party representative. Embrain Public, K-Stat Research, Korea Research, and Hankook Research surveyed 1,000 adults nationwide for three days from February 13 to February 15 (confidence level 95%, sampling error ±3.1% points). ) As a result, the response that Candidate Ahn is the most suitable as the next party representative for the power of the people was the highest at 23%. Candidates Ki-hyun Kim and Ha-ram Cheon followed with 11%, followed by Candidate Kyo-ahn Hwang with 5%. When limited to the people’s strength supporters (395 people, 95% confidence level, ±4.9% points of sampling error), Candidate Ahn 30%, Candidate Kim 26%, Candidate Hwang 8%, Candidate Chun 6%. Compared to the same survey two weeks ago (Candidate Ahn 34% – Candidate Kim 20%), the gap has narrowed significantly, and it seems that Candidate Kim is chasing Candidate Ahn within the margin of error. Even as a result of investigating the approval rating under the assumption that the People’s Power party representative final vote will be held as a bilateral confrontation between Candidate Kim and Candidate Ahn, Candidate Ahn (41%) was ahead of Candidate Kim (23%) with a gap of 18 percentage points. However, in the supporters of the people’s strength, the gap between Candidate Ahn (43%) and Candidate Kim (39%) decreased significantly within the margin of error, with a difference of 4 percentage points. In addition, in this survey, 36% of the positive evaluation that President Yoon Seok-yeol was ‘doing well’ and 55% of the negative evaluation that he was ‘doing it wrong’ were the same as the survey two weeks ago. Party support was 39% of the people’s strength, 26% of the Democratic Party of Korea, and 4% of the Justice Party. The People’s Power and Justice Party rose by 3 percentage points and 2 percentage points, respectively, from two weeks ago, and the Democratic Party fell by 3 percentage points. The support of the people’s power and the Democratic Party, which showed a 7 percentage point gap during the survey in the 5th week of January, widened to 13 percentage points. On the other hand, regarding the decision to impeach Lee Sang-min, Minister of Public Administration and Security led by the Democratic Party, the response was a ‘good decision’ (44%) and a ‘wrong decision’ (43%). Reporter Lee Jung-ae hongbyul@hani.co.kr