Support ratings for ruling party and largest opposition party remain ”close” in South Korea

As the impeachment trial of South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol reaches its final stages, the approval ratings of the ruling People Power Party and the main opposition Democratic Party remain in a close race.
According to a survey of party support rates for the third week of February conducted by the South Korean polling agency Realmeter on the 20th and 21st of this month among 1,006 voters aged 18 and over, and released on the 24th,
The ruling party rose 1.3 percentage points from the previous week's survey to 42.7%, while the Democratic Party fell 2.0 percentage points to 41.1%.
This is followed by the Fatherland Reform Party (4.4%), the New Reform Party (1.4%), the Progressive Party (0.7%), and independents.
The approval rating for the ruling party and the Democratic Party has been in a close race this month.
In a survey conducted immediately after the December 3 emergency martial law, the ruling party had 25.7% and the Democratic Party had 52.4%.
However, the gap has since narrowed, to 7.5 percentage points in the third week of January, and the race has remained close this month.
Meanwhile, a survey on the “Favourability of the ruling party in the upcoming presidential election” conducted at the same time showed that 45.3% of respondents wanted the current ruling party to continue its administration, while 49.0% wanted a “change of government.”
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