SEOUL, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate of South Korea's majority liberal Democratic Party, led a poll for the snap presidential election on June 3, Flower Research survey showed Monday.
Lee won a support rate of 48.9 percent, taking a big lead over Kim Moon-soo, presidential candidate of the second-biggest conservative People Power Party who garnered 30.8 percent of support.
The civil rights lawyer-turned-politician maintained his position as presidential frontrunner in the election, triggered by the removal of former President Yoon Suk-yeol from office over his botched martial law imposition last December.
Lee lost the 2022 presidential election to Yoon by the country's narrowest margin of 0.73 percentage points.
Lee Jun-seok of the minor conservative New Reform Party took 9.6 percent of support.
The Democratic Party won an approval score of 49.2 percent, while 31.1 percent supported the People Power Party, the survey showed.
The result was based on a poll of 2,004 voters conducted between Friday and Saturday. It had a plus and minus 2.2 percentage points in margin of error with a 95 percent confidence level. ■
