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While a revised Criminal Procedure Act to completely abolish prosecutors' direct and supplementary investigation powers has passed the Cabinet meeting, a survey showed today (the 5th) that more than 6 in 10 citizens still believe prosecutors need supplementary investigation powers.
According to a survey of 1,000 adults aged 18 and older nationwide conducted by Hangil Research commissioned by Cookie News from July 1 to 3, 62.5% of respondents answered that prosecutors' supplementary investigation powers are "necessary."
Those who answered "not necessary" accounted for 31.8%, while 5.8% responded "don't know."
Responses stating that supplementary investigation powers are necessary recorded a majority regardless of supporting political parties and political orientation.
Among supporters of the Democratic Party, 53.8% answered that supplementary investigation powers are necessary, compared to 73.0% of supporters of the People Power Party.
The proportion of respondents who said they are "not necessary" was 39.5% among Democratic Party supporters and 22.4% among People Power Party supporters.
By political orientation, 52.0% of progressives and 69.9% of conservatives agreed on the necessity of supplementary investigation powers.
Notably, among moderates, the response that they are necessary was the highest at 70.5%.
Responses were closely split on the question of public trust in prosecutors as an investigative agency.
Respondents who said they "trust prosecutors" stood at 48.1%, while those who said they "do not trust them" recorded 48.4%.
On the other hand, public trust in the police, who are set to receive full investigative authority under the revised Criminal Procedure Act, stopped at 41.4%.
The proportion of respondents who answered "do not trust" exceeded half at 55.2%.
Previously, the National Assembly passed the revised Criminal Procedure Act to completely abolish prosecutors' investigative powers on the 31st of last month, led by the Democratic Party.
This bill also passed the Cabinet meeting presided over by President Lee Jae-myung the previous day.
Meanwhile, in response to a question regarding the real estate policy of the Lee Jae-myung administration, negative evaluations of "doing a poor job" accounted to 57.6%.
The positive evaluation rate was 35.6%, and "don't know" stood at 6.8%.
Looking at the characteristics of respondents with negative evaluations by age group, those in their 30s were the highest at 70.4%.
They were followed by those aged 20 or younger at 61.5%, those in their 40s at 60.7%, those in their 50s at 57.7%, those aged 70 or older at 49.5%, and those in their 60s at 48.2%.
By region, Daegu and Gyeongbuk recorded the highest negative evaluation rate at 70.0%, followed by Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongsangnam-do at 62.0%, Seoul at 60.3%, and Incheon and Gyeonggi-do at 59.3%.
This survey was conducted by extracting samples through random digit dialing (RDD) for wired and wireless telephones, with 3.6% conducted via wired telephone interviews and 96.4% via wireless automated response systems (ARS).
(Refer to the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission website for detailed information)
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