Lula continues to lead voting intentions for the second presidential round

With each passing day, the electoral dispute for the second round in Brazil intensifies, as well as the insults among the candidates, discrediting each other.

Current president Jair Bolsonaro and his rival Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva iThey exchanged accusations over the weekend respectively of drunkenness and cannibalism, in a charge of hostility in the campaign towards the presidential ballot on Sunday 30 October.

Bolsonaro, who had kept a Moderate tone in the last part of the campaignhe returned to his more aggressive style, accusing Lula of being “drunk”.

And former president Lula (2003-2010) broadcast a TV commercial with excerpts from an old interview in which Bolsonaro He claims he would eat human flesh.

So much so that a judge of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of Brazil ordered Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to stop running an advertising campaign that associates Jair Bolsonaro with cannibalism, three weeks before the second round of the presidential election.

Below is one of current President Jair Bolsonaro’s more recent trills against former President Lula:

The consulting firm Ipec, one of the most important consulting firms in Brazil, has published a new poll ahead of the second round elections to be held later this month, where support for Lula hit 51% while Bolsonaro showed 42% support for the second round.

The latest poll that was released last week had thrown a similar result with 43% approval for the current president and the same result for the candidate Lula da Silva.

The result of the survey dates back to an interview with 2,000 people between 8 and 10 October with a margin of error of 2 percentage points.

Despite Brazilian criticism of IPEC for its high margin of error in underestimating support for Bolsonaro in the first round, today continues to indicate that if the elections were held today, Lula da Silva would be the next president of Brazil.

Below is Lula da Silva’s most recent tweet against Jair Bolsonaro’s government:

Furthermore, within the two finalist campaigns, 94 percent said they were sure of their vote, while the remaining 6 percent I could change it from here until next October 30th.

As for Bolsonaro’s approval, 41 percent suspend the running of his government and 38 percent consider it good. 10 percent consider it to be regular.

In the midst of the political polarization that Brazil is going through, some personalities of the show have expressed their intention to vote for the second round, this was the case with player Neymar Jr who assured that his vote would go for the current president Jair Bolsonaro, to which the president replied:

“Neymar, thank you. Thank you for your concern, not for my fate, but for that of your country. I am a simple soldier. You are the man.”

The Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) striker has positioned himself in favor of Bolsonaro three days before the first shift of the presidential election, smilingly imitating a campaign jingle in a TikTok video.

The next day he defended himself from the multiple criticisms received on social networks.

Please note that in the first round, on 2 October, Lula got 48.4 percent of the vote valid, against 43.2 per cent of Bolsonaro. Third place, Simone Tebet (MDB), remained with 4.2 percent and Ciro Gomes (PDT), with three percent.

On Recent Alliances The second round of presidential elections in Brazil left an unexpected alliance in the state of Sergipe after Valmir de Francisquinho, of Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL), haya decided to support Rogério Carvalho, the candidate for governor presented by the Workers’ Party (PT) by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

With information from AFP and Europa Press *