Leftist candidate in the Brazilian elections, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (Getty)
An opinion poll published on Wednesday showed that the Brazilian presidential race intensified following the gap between leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowed to four percentage points and the current president, who belongs to the far right. Jair Bolsonaro.
The Datafolha polling institute said Lula now has the support of 49 percent of voters once morest 45 percent for Bolsonaro, less than two weeks before the second round scheduled for October 30, compared with 49 and 44 percent, respectively, in the previous poll five days ago. .
The poll’s margin of error is two percentage points, up or down, which means that they may be statistically equivalent at 47 percent.
Datafolha interviewed 2,912 voters between 17-19 October.
and announced Brazilian presidential candidate Simone Tabet, who ranked third in the results of the first round, early this month, endorsed the former leftist president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva In the second round, he faces the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
Lula also had the endorsement of former centre-right president Fernando Henrique Cardozo (1995-2002). Cardoso, who defeated Lula twice in presidential elections in 1994 and 1998, wrote on Twitter that he would vote for Lula’s “history of struggle for democracy”.
(Archyde.com, AFP)
