Ruling NCNP Losing Popular Support

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Ruling NCNP Losing Popular Support

Levels of popular support for the political parties - the National Congress for New Politics (NCNP), the Grand National Party (GNP) and the United Liberal Democrats (ULD) - have substantially changed owing to an array of recent political conflicts between the ruling party and the opposition party, which mainly stemmed from the disclosure of the government press coercion document and suspicions that the National Intelligence Service has interfered in politics.
The JoongAng Ilbo conducted a public poll of 1,053 people from across the nation concerning popular support for the three political parties on November 19.
According to the survey results, the rate of support for the ruling NCNP posted 17.5 percent, declining by 7.8 percent on the figure recorded November 12, while the opposition GNP and the ULD posted 14.5 percent and 5.5 percent, up 3.3 percent and 1.8 percent respectively.
Those indicating that they could find 'No party to support' hit 62.5 percent, a 2.7-percent decrease on the figure in the previous survey.
The NCNP's support rate plunged to the 10-percent level in the November 19 survey after it began showing signs of faltering popularity from July 1999.
President Kim Dae-jung personally was supported by 39.6 percent of respondents in the survey.
Seo Jang-soo:jsbee@joongang.co.kr
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