“President Yoon’s Approval Rating Falls for Three Consecutive Weeks, Realmeter Poll Shows”

The results of a public opinion poll came out on the 24th that the approval rating of President Seok-Yeol Yoon for state affairs fell for three weeks in a row and recorded in the early 30s.

Realmeter commissioned Media Tribune to survey 2,520 people over the age of 18 across the country from the 17th to the 21st, and the results announced on the same day showed that 32.6% of President Yoon’s administration of state affairs was positively evaluated. It was 1.0 percentage point lower than in the same survey last week, falling for three consecutive weeks. The negative evaluation was 64.7%, up 1.3 percentage points from the previous survey.

Bae Cheol-ho, senior expert on Realmeter, said, “In an interview with Reuters (Communications) in the middle of (last) week, President Yoon’s remarks such as ‘possible arms support to Ukraine’ and ‘opposition to change the Taiwan Strait phenomenon by force’ emerged as domestic and foreign political and diplomatic issues. “As compensation for forced labor in ‘Japan’ was added to wiretapping suspicions in ‘America’ followed by ‘Russia’ and ‘public’, issues of diplomacy and security served as the main basis for the evaluation of the president’s state affairs for nearly two months,” he analyzed.

Senior expert member Bae said, “With foreign affairs and security issues rising at the top of both positive and negative in the presidential evaluation of state affairs, the content of the visit to the United States starting this week, specific achievements, and messages around the first anniversary of his inauguration in succession reflect the mid- to short-term trend of the presidential evaluation. It will be the main momentum that determines it.”

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In terms of party support, the Democratic Party (45.7%) fell 3.1 percentage points from the previous week. People’s Power (34.5%) rose by 0.6 percentage points, and the Justice Party (3.3%) fell by 0.1 percentage points. The proportion of non-party members rose 2.0 percentage points to 14.2%, the highest since the launch of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration.

Senior expert member Bae said, “The point of analysis of the results of the Democratic Party (approval) is the direction and size of the flow of approval ratings according to the issue of the ‘money envelope for the party convention’.” It was found that it fell by nearly 10 percentage points in Jeolla, and even within the support group, it was seriously shocked.”

Senior expert member Bae said, “Even though the Democratic Party (approval rating) has declined significantly due to the money bag incident at the Democratic Party National Convention, the fact that the president and the ruling party cannot enjoy reflexive benefits or escape from bad news is that Yongsan (President’s Office) and (People’s Power) It is a matter for the Kim Ki-hyun leadership to ponder deeply,” he analyzed.

The sampling error of this survey is ±2.0 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. 97% wireless and 3% wired, and the response rate was 3.4%.

For more information, please refer to the National Election Survey Deliberation Committee and the website of Realmeter.