President Wen’s approval rating is 34.1%… Lowest for the current government [리얼미터]

Input 2021.03.22 08:20 | Revision 2021.03.22 08:33

Seoul, People’s Power 38% Democratic Party 26%
Busan, People’s Power 42% Democratic Party 23%
Democratic Party’s approval rating gap is outside the margin of error

The results of a public opinion poll came out on the 22nd, indicating that President Moon Jae-in’s support for the state administration and the Democratic Party approval rate fell to the lowest level for the current government. A press conference (17th) of the late Park Won-soon, former Seoul Mayor sexual harassment victims, who expressed their feelings at the second abuse of passport personnel amid the spread of land speculation by the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) It seems to be having an adverse effect.

As a result of a survey of 2510 people aged 18 and older nationwide on the 15th to 19th by Real Meter commissioned by YTN, President Moon’s affirmative evaluation (approval rate) was found to be 34.1%, down 3.6 percentage points from last week.

The negative evaluation was 62.2%, an increase of 4.8 percentage points. The positive evaluation is the lowest for the current government, and the negative evaluation is the highest. The difference between positive and negative evaluation also widened to a record high of 28.1 percentage points. 3.7% of the respondents did not know. The previous lowest rate of President Moon’s approval rating was 35.5% in the first week of January, and the highest before the negative evaluation was 60.9% at the same time.

The decline in approval ratings was large in Daegu and Gyeongbuk (9.3%p↓), Gwangju and Jeolla (5.8%p↓), in their 30s (5.8%p↓), and in their 50s (5.7%p↓). The support rate for the Democratic Party (2.6%p↓) and the Open Democratic Party (2.3%p↓) also fell.

The party approval rate showed that the people’s power rose 3.1 percentage points to 35.5%, and the Democratic Party fell 2.0 percentage points to 28.1%. The Democratic Party approval rating is the lowest since the inauguration of the current government. The gap in approval ratings between the two parties was 7.4 percentage points, out of the margin of error (±2.0%p at the 95% confidence level).

In Seoul, where the re-elections are held in April, the Democratic Party’s approval rating fell 1.4 percentage points to 26.2%, and the people’s support rate rose 2.5 percentage points to 38.9%. It is a difference of 12.7 percentage points. In Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam ahead of the Busan Mayor’s by-election, the Democratic Party fell 2.8 percentage points to 23.5%, and the people’s power rose 2.8 percentage points to 42.0%, and the gap widened to 18.5 percentage points.

For more information, refer to the Real Meter homepage or the homepage of the Central Election Survey Deliberation Committee.