SEOUL, July 28 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating stood unchanged at 76.2 percent last week compared to the previous week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
The negative assessment on Lee's conduct of state affairs fell 0.3 percentage points to 21.6 percent, according to computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) by local pollster Flower Research.
The ruling liberal Democratic Party's support increased 0.4 percentage points to 59.3 percent, while the conservative opposition People Power Party's approval score added 1.0 percentage point to 20.5 percent.
Support rate for both the minor left-leaning Rebuilding Korea Party and the minor rightist New Reform Party posted 2.8 percent last week.
The pollster's separate survey of the automated response system (ARS) showed that Lee's approval rating declined 1.3 percentage points from a week earlier to 68.4 percent last week.
The CATI and the ARS surveyed 1,007 and 1,008 voters each from Friday to Saturday. They had plus and minus 3.1 percentage points in margin of error with a 95-percent confidence level. ■
