SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating fell 0.3 percentage points from a week earlier to 71.3 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
The negative assessment of Lee's conduct of state affairs rose 1.6 percentage points to 27.7 percent, according to computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) by local pollster Flower Research.
The ruling liberal Democratic Party's support increased 1.4 percentage points to 56.7 percent, while the conservative opposition People Power Party's approval score gained 2.6 percentage points to 25.3 percent.
The support rate for the minor left-leaning Rebuilding Korea Party and the minor rightist New Reform Party stood at 3.3 percent and 2.8 percent, respectively, last week.
The pollster's separate survey of the automated response system (ARS) showed that Lee's approval rating advanced 1.4 percentage points to 65.5 percent last week compared to the previous week.
The CATI and the ARS surveyed 1,001 and 1,008 voters each from Friday to Saturday. They had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at a 95-percent confidence level. ■
