Brazil’s presidential runoff favorite Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva admitted Thursday that incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro’s progress in the latest poll is a warning sign, but said he was “sure” of winning on October 30.
“The survey only serves to alert us,” the former leftist president (2003-2010) said at a press conference in Rio. But “I am sure we will win the election,” he said. “It seems impossible to me that he (Bolsonaro) erases the difference in a week, even with the crazy things he does and the lies he tells.”
The gap narrows with Bolsonaro
Long before the start of the official campaign, Lula always had a winner: in May, he even had a 21-point lead, according to Datafolha.
But the far-right candidate reduced his deficit to 5 points in the first round on October 2, obtaining 43% of the vote, a much smaller difference than expected by the pollsters.
10 days before the vote, the finalists have to try to convince the undecided (1%) and those who say they will vote blank or null (4%).
Source: BFM TV
