President Lee Jae-myung's job approval stayed in the 40% range for a second straight week. In party support, the People Power Party led the Democratic Party of Korea within the margin of error for a third consecutive week.

After finishing the Group of Seven summit schedule, Lee Jae-myung arrives at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province on the 18th and exchanges greetings with Democratic Party of Korea leader Jung Chung-rae./Courtesy of News1

In a survey by Realmeter commissioned by Energy Economy News of 2,502 people nationwide age 18 and older from the 22nd to the 26th, positive assessments of the president's job performance came to 46.5%, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous week. Negative assessments were 49.5%, and "don't know" was 4%.

Realmeter analyzed, "As the National Election Commission's poor ballot management controversy drags on, distrust in the livelihood economy has grown, and with political clashes between the ruling and opposition parties over the plan to abolish prosecutors' supplementary investigative authority and the debate on semiconductor investment in Honam, the downtrend in approval has continued."

The president's approval rate has fallen for six straight weeks after hitting 60.5% in the second week of May. It has dropped 14 percentage points in six weeks. Negative assessments rose from 35.1% to 49.5% in the same period.

By ideology, approval fell by 4.5 percentage points among progressives (75.9%) and by 2.5 percentage points among moderates (45.3%).

In a party support survey of 1,002 people nationwide age 18 and older on the 25th and 26th, the People Power Party recorded 42%, down 0.3 percentage points, and the Democratic Party was 41%, up 0.9 percentage points. The People Power Party led within the margin of error (±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level) for three straight weeks.

The Rebuilding Korea Party was 3.7%, the Reform Party was 2.8%, and The Progressive Party was 1.5%.

Both surveys were conducted via wireless automated response. The presidential job approval survey had a margin of error of ±2.0 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, with a response rate of 4.1%. The party support survey had a margin of error of ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, with a response rate of 3.4%. For details, see the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.

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