Overview

• President Lee’s approval rating fell 5.4 percentage points this week to 51.1 percent, marking his lowest level since taking office in June.
• Negative assessments of his performance climbed 6.3 points to 44.5 percent, according to the Realmeter poll.
• Support for the ruling Democratic Party plunged to 39.9 percent while the People Power Party rose to 36.7 percent, narrowing the gap between the two major parties.
• Realmeter cited public anger over Liberation Day pardons, uncertainty over stock capital gains tax proposals and the political burden of both the president and first lady’s detention as key drivers of the decline.
• The automated telephone survey of 2,003 adults and a separate 1,001-respondent party rating poll had low response rates and margins of error that suggest caution in interpreting week-to-week shifts.