SEOUL: Former United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon, who is scheduled to return to South Korea, his home country, later Thursday, has kept his second place in presidential polls for two weeks, a survey showed. Moon Jae-in, former head of the biggest opposition Minjoo Party, posted 27.9 percent in approval rating, keeping the top rank for the second consecutive week. His rating was up 1.1 percentage points from a week ago. Meanwhile, Seongnam Mayor Lee Jae-myung of the Minjoo Party saw his approval scores decline 0.7 percentage points to 11.3 percent, maintaining the third place. Support scores for Ahn Cheol-soo of the minor opposition People’s Party rose 0.6 percentage point over the week to 7.1 percent this week, ending a downward trend.

Source: Manila Times January 13, 2017 03:59 UTC