President Park Geun-hye’s job approval rating edged down amid a factional feud over how to select those who will run for parliamentary elections next year, a poll showed Monday.
A poll released by polling agency Realmeter showed 50.3 percent of people approved of the job Park is doing, down 1.4 percentage points from a week earlier.
Those who disapproved of Park’s job performance came to 44.1 percent, up 1.8 percentage points from a week earlier.
Park’s ruling Saenuri Party is embroiled in factional strife over whether to adopt an open primary ahead of next year’s general elections.
Kim Moo-sung, head of the party, vowed to introduce the system designed to allow ordinary people to select candidates for parliamentary elections.
But Rep. Yoon Sang-hyun of the Saenuri Party, who is a special political adviser to Park, said it is nearly impossible for the party to adopt it.
Separately, 19.9 percent supported Kim in a potential presidential race. Moon Jae-in, head of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, and Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon received 17.9 percent and 14.8 percent of support, respectively.
The survey was conducted on 1,000 adults on Sept. 14-15 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. (Yonhap)
