Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a candidate for re-election, is narrowly catching up with his opponent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a poll published on Wednesday, 11 days before the second round of presidential elections.
The former left-wing president is credited with 52% of the expressed voting intentions, compared to 48% of the outgoing head of state, according to this survey by the Datafolha reference institute. In a previous poll, published on October 14, Lula was credited with 53% of voting intentions, compared to 47% for Jair Bolsonaro.
In the final stretch of a campaign disputed between misinformation and accusations of cannibalism or pedophilia, the candidates are trying to convince the undecided and those who say they will vote blank or null on October 30.
not a forecast
In the first round, on October 2, the former leftist president prevailed with 48% of the vote, compared to 43% for Jair Bolsonaro. The different survey institutes were harshly criticized on this occasion for not having anticipated the high score of the outgoing president, to whom they attributed a maximum of 37%.
“The survey does not necessarily constitute a forecast result, but rather reflects what the voter thinks at the time he is surveyed,” the newspaper stressed on Wednesday. Folha de S.Paulo by publishing the survey.
With a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points, this survey was conducted in the last three days in 181 Brazilian cities among 2,912 people.
Source: BFM TV
