President Lee Jae-myung’s approval rating for his handling of state affairs increased for the second consecutive week, surpassing 60% for the first time in seven months, according to a poll released on the 16th.
In a survey conducted by Realmeter at the request of Energy Economy Newspaper from the 9th to the 13th of the month, targeting 2,513 eligible voters aged 18 and over nationwide, President Lee’s positive evaluation for state affairs was tallied at 60.3%. This figure represents a 2.1 percentage point (p) increase from last week’s survey.
Negative evaluations dropped by 2.1%p to 35.0%, while the percentage of respondents who answered “don’t know” remained unchanged at 4.7%.
This is the first time in approximately seven months since the fifth week of July last year (63.3%) that President Lee’s approval rating in the Realmeter survey has returned to the 60% level.
Realmeter explained, “In a situation where oil prices skyrocketed and inflation concerns grew due to the worsening situation in the Middle East, the government’s prompt introduction of preemptive economic and livelihood measures such as the ‘Oil Price Cap’ and ‘Early Supplementary Budget’ played a role in driving the approval rating.”
In a survey conducted from the 12th to the 13th targeting 1,005 eligible voters aged 18 and over nationwide, the Democratic Party recorded a support rate of 50.5%, while the People Power Party recorded 31.9%.
The Democratic Party’s support rose by 2.4%p compared to the previous week, while the People Power Party fell by 0.5%p. The Reform Party and the Future Party recorded support rates of 2.6% and 2.8%, respectively, while the Progressive Party came in at 1.4%. The non-affiliated voter group was 9.0%.
Both surveys were conducted using a wireless automatic response method.
The margin of error for the presidential approval rating survey is ±2.0%p at a 95% confidence level, with a response rate of 5.4%. The response rate for the party support survey has a margin of error of ±3.1%p at a 95% confidence level, with a response rate of 4.3%.