SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in's approval rating inched down 0.1 percentage points to 40.4 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday.
The negative assessment on Moon's conduct of state affairs slipped 0.7 percentage points to 56.1 percent, according to the Realmeter survey.
Support for Moon's ruling Democratic Party rose 1.1 percentage points to 34.2 percent last week.
The main conservative opposition People Power Party won 39.3 percent of support last week, down 0.1 percentage points from the previous week.
The minor center-right People's Party gained 7.7 percent of approval score, followed by the minor center-left Open Democratic Party with 5.6 percent and the minor progressive Justice Party with 3.6 percent.
As for the approval rating of presidential candidates, support for the Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung climbed 2.2 percentage points over the week to 39.7 percent last week.
Support for the People Power Party's Yoon Suk-yeol increased 1.2 percentage points to 45.2 percent last week.
The country's presidential election is scheduled for March 9 in 2022.
The results were based on a poll of 3,043 voters conducted from last Sunday to Friday. It had plus and minus 1.8 percentage points in margin of error with a 95-percent confidence level. Enditem
