Key facts
- President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating has fallen to a new low of 43 percent.
- This is the fifth consecutive weekly decline in his approval rating.
- 54.1 percent of respondents gave a negative assessment of his job performance.
- Voter dissatisfaction with real estate tax code revisions and housing policy controversies were cited as reasons for the decline.
President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating has dipped to a new low of 43 percent, marking its fifth consecutive weekly decline, according to a Realmeter survey. The poll, conducted from last Monday to Friday among 2,511 voters, showed Lee's rating down 0.3 percentage point from the previous week.
Fifty-four point one percent of respondents gave a negative assessment of Lee's job performance, an increase of 1.1 percentage points. The survey indicated the sharpest decline in approval was among voters in their 60s, whose support for Lee fell 6.1 percentage points to 43.1 percent. Conversely, his approval rating among voters in their 20s rose 3.1 percentage points to 31 percent.
Analysis of the poll results revealed shifts across political demographics. Lee's approval rating among progressive voters decreased by 4.6 percentage points to 59.1 percent, while his rating among conservative voters saw an increase of 4.8 percentage points, reaching 22.4 percent.
Realmeter attributed the recent downturn in approval to voter dissatisfaction stemming from the government's recent revisions to real estate tax codes and other housing policy controversies. The poll has a confidence level of 95 percent with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.