– The results of a public opinion poll showed that the approval rating of President Moon Jae-in rebounded to the 40% range. After taking office last week, it rose 2.8 percentage points to 39.5% from last week, which was the lowest (36.7%).
On the 21st, Real Meter, commissioned by YTN, announced the results for the third week of December 2020, which surveyed 2514 voters over the age of 18 nationwide from the 14th to the 18th.
According to this, 39.5% of respondents said that they are doing well in national administration, and 57.7% said they are doing wrong. The positive evaluation was in the 30% range for three consecutive weeks, and the negative evaluation fell 0.5 percentage points from last week, but it exceeded 50% for eight consecutive weeks after the fourth week of October. The difference between the positive and negative evaluations is 18.2% points outside the margin of error. ‘Don’t know, no response’ decreased by 2.3 percentage points to 2.8%.
A Real Meter official said, “The re-proliferation of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the ruling party’s enforcement of the revision of the High-ranking Officials Crime Investigations Act, and resolution of the conflict between Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae and Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol will have an impact. “It’s crazy.”
In the progressive class, the traditional supporter of President Moon, the approval rating rose 6.4 percentage points from the previous week to 66.0%. The negative evaluation was counted at 32.2%. In their 40s, it was 48.6%, up 2.3 percentage points from the previous week. However, negative evaluation was 49.9%, slightly ahead of positive evaluation.
By region, positive evaluations rose in Busan, Ulsan, Gyeongnam (9.0% points), Seoul (3.9% points), Daejeon, Sejong, Chungcheong (3.2% points), and Daegu and Gyeongbuk (2.7% points), but Gwangju and Jeolla (1.6%) % Points), it fell.
Reversing the power of the people… 1.0%p ahead of the Democratic Party
– On the other hand, it was found that the approval rating of the Democratic Party and the people’s power was reversed again within the margin of error.
The approval rating of the people’s power remained unchanged from last week at 31.6%, while the Democratic Party fell 0.2 percentage points to 30.6%. However, the gap was 1.0%, showing a flow within the error range for 3 consecutive weeks.
For the power of the people, Daegu and Gyeongbuk (5.8% points↑), Incheon and Gyeonggi (4.9% points↑), 60s (4.5% points↑), housewives (2.3% points↑), office workers (2.3% points↑) Led the rise in the back.
Democrats in the Honam area (11.3% points↓), Seoul (2.7% points↓), men (2.3% points↓), 70s and older (4.4% points↓), 60s (2.3% points↓), middle class (1.3%) Points ↓) and labor workers (2.6% points ↓).
Realmeter said, “After the amendment to the Airlift Act last week passed the State Council, the Prosecutors’ Disciplinary Committee of the Ministry of Justice decided to dispose of’two months of honesty’ with the Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, and the effects of the opposition’s strong resentment for President Moon’s stay It seems to have worked in combination.” Regarding the failure of the Democratic Party’s approval rating to rebound, he analyzed that “the controversy over the’wine party’ of Rep. Yoon Mi-hyang amid the corona crisis would have had an impact.”
In addition, the Nationalist Party and the Open Democratic Party recorded 7.2% and the Justice Party 3.4%, respectively.
On the other hand, the sample error of this survey is ±2.0% point at the 95% confidence level. The response rate was 4.6%. For more information, please refer to the website of the Central Election Survey Deliberation Committee.
Reporter Juhee Hong [email protected]
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