President Lee Jae-myung's Approval Rating Drops to Record Low of 33.8%, PPP (42.1%) Surpasses DP (36.1%) [Realmeter]

Public approval for President Lee Jae-myung's state administration fell for the ninth consecutive week, hitting a new low since taking office, according to poll results released today (Sept. 14).

In a survey commissioned by Energy Economy News and conducted by Realmeter from the 7th to the 11th among 2,515 adults aged 18 and older nationwide, positive evaluations of President Lee's job performance dropped 3.6 percentage points from the previous week to 33.8%.

Negative evaluations rose 3.8 percentage points from the previous week to 63.3%, staying ahead of positive ratings outside the margin of error (by 29.5 percentage points) for the seventh straight week.

Respondents who answered "don't know" accounted for 2.9%.

Realmeter analyzed that "despite recent summit diplomacy, negative public sentiment spread over pending state affairs such as controversies surrounding cabinet personnel selections, the review of troop deployment to the Strait of Hormuz, and uncertainties in real estate policy, compounded by significant defections among progressives and young adults in their 20s, leading to the drop in approval ratings."

In a party approval rating survey conducted among 1,033 adults aged 18 and older nationwide on the 10th and 11th, a reversal in party support occurred for the first time in about two months since the survey on June 25 to 26.

The Democratic Party of Korea recorded 36.1% and the People Power Party recorded 42.1%.

The Democratic Party fell 5.7 percentage points from the previous survey, while the People Power Party rose 4.5 percentage points, making the gap between the two parties 6.0 percentage points, which is within the margin of error.

Realmeter evaluated that "as the ruling party, the Democratic Party experienced a sharp drop in support, particularly among young adults in their 20s and progressives, linked to the president's falling approval rating amid overlapping burdens of state issues such as real estate policy uncertainties and cabinet personnel controversies."

Regarding the People Power Party, it interpreted that "support surged as young adults in their 20s and residents in the Chungcheong and Busan-Gyeongnam (PK) regions rallied in large numbers, driven by a windfall effect from controversies surrounding the government's cabinet picks and other pending state issues."

The Rebuilding Korea Party followed with 4.7%, while the Progressive Party and the New Reform Party each recorded 1.3%.

Other parties accounted for 2.3%, and unaligned voters stood at 12.2%.

Both surveys were conducted via wireless automated response systems.

The survey on the president's job performance had a sampling error of ±2.0 percentage points at a 95% confidence level and a response rate of 4.5%.

The party support survey had a sampling error of ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level and a response rate of 3.6%.

(For further details, please refer to the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.)

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