Left candidate in Brazilian elections, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (Getty)
An opinion poll released Wednesday showed Brazil’s presidential race intensified after the gap between left-wing leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowed to four percentage points and the current president, who belongs to the far right. Jair Bolsonaro.
Datafolha’s constituency said Lula now has the support of 49% of voters versus Bolsonaro’s 45%, less than two weeks before the second round scheduled for October 30, up from 49 and 44% respectively. survey five days ago. .
The survey’s margin of error is two percentage points, up or down, which means they could be statistically equivalent to 47%.
Datafolha interviewed 2,912 voters between 17 and 19 October.
and announced Brazilian presidential candidate Simone Tabet, who finished third in the first round results earlier this month, backed the former left-wing president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva In the second round, he faces the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
Lula also had the support of former center-right president Fernando Henrique Cardozo (1995-2002). Cardoso, who defeated Lula twice in presidential elections in 1994 and 1998, tweeted that he would vote for Lula’s “struggle for democracy story”.
(Reuters, AFP)
