With 50 days left before the presidential election in South Korea, Lee Myung-bak’s support rate is still far ahead.

　　　　BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) According to a recent survey quoted by the Korean Chosun Ilbo, 50 days before the 17th presidential election in South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, the candidate of South Korea’s Grand National Party, won the support of more than half of the voters and still topped the list.

　　　　Chosun Ilbo commissioned South Korea’s Gallup Company to conduct a public opinion survey on the 29th, 50 days before the general election. The results showed that Zheng Dongyong, the candidate of the New Democratic Party of Datong, ranked second after Lee Myung-bak (53.7%). The second is to create the candidate of the Korean Party (tentative name), the candidate of the Democratic Party, Li Renji (4.2%) and the candidate of the Democratic Labor Party, Human Rights Yongji (3.9%). The general election pattern of "one strong, one middle and three weak" formed when the candidates of the New Party and the Democratic Party were elected on October 16th still continued.

　　　　Lee Myung-bak’s support rate dropped by 1.8 percentage points compared with the Gallup survey (55.5%) on the 16th two weeks ago, but the gap between him and the second place was 36.6 percentage points, which still kept a huge gap. Zheng Dongyong, the leader among the candidates in the pan-ruling circle, saw his support rate soar by 10 percentage points after the new party election, but this time it was only 0.9 percentage points higher than half a month ago.

　　　　In addition, in the survey conducted this time, Zheng Dongyong (41.3%) was significantly ahead of Wen Guoxian (16.6%) and Li Renji (11.5%) on the question "If the candidates in the pan-ruling circle were single, who would be elected most", and another 28.4% answered "I don’t know or don’t answer".

　　　　The survey was conducted in the form of telephone interviews for 1027 nationals over the age of 19, with a maximum error of 3.1%.

Editor: Zhao Deli