People Power Party Favorability Falls as Impeachment Trial Nears Conclusion
According to the latest Gallup poll, the DPK has risen in popularity while the PPP has slide by five points:
The support rating for the ruling People Power Party fell as the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea regained its lead in terms of party affiliation, with the president’s impeachment trial poised to end Tuesday, a poll showed Friday.
According to Gallup Korea’s poll of 1,002 potential South Korean voters conducted in the third week of February, those who identified as supporters of the ruling party amounted to 34 percent, down 5 percentage points from a week prior.
With declining support, the ruling party — whose lawmakers have en masse protested President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial procedures — conceded the lead it had held in the previous poll. Those who responded in support of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea rose 2 percentage points to 40 percent. The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, putting their numbers just within the margin at opposite extremes.
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