Chief of the ruling People Power Party's emergency leadership committee, Kwon Young-se, right, shakes hands with Lee Jae-myung, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, during a memorial service for late former National Assembly Speaker Kim Soo-han at the parliamentary building in Seoul, Jan. 3. Yonhap
The gap in the approval ratings for the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) narrowed to the slimmest margin in nearly four months, a poll showed Monday.
According to the survey by Realmeter on 1,006 people aged 18 and older conducted Thursday and Friday, support for the PPP rose 6.4 percentage points from the previous week to 40.8 percent, while the figure for the DPK fell 3 percentage points to 42.2 percent.
The gap in their approval ratings shrunk to 1.4 percentage points, compared with 10.8 percentage points last week.
The pollster said the gap between the rival parties' approval ratings has "narrowed to within the margin of error for the first time in 16 weeks since the third week of September" as support for the PPP rebounded to over 40 percent for the first time since hitting 42.1 percent in the third week of July.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level. (Yonhap)
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