According to the poll released Thursday evening by Datafolha, former Brazilian President Lula da Silva has 45% of the voting intentions for the presidential election scheduled to be held in a month.
According to a study commissioned by Globo and the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, The Workers’ Party (PT) candidate lost two percentage points from the previous August 18 Datafolha poll.
To win the first round, which takes place on October 2, more than 50% of the votes are needed.
Current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has maintained his 32% percentage of voting intentions, according to poll released today.
In third place is Labor leader Ciro Gomes, who rose two percentage points to 9% of the vote.
The one who rose the most and varied outside the margin of error was Senator Simone Tebet: She grew by three percentage points and now has 5% voting intentions.
Blank and/or invalid votes represent 4%.
If we consider only valid votes, with no zero, white and undecided, Lula da Silva has dropped from 51% to 48%, taking him further away from the possibility of the election being decided in the first round.
According to Datafolha, the former president will register 53% of the voting intentions in a possible second round and the current head of state has 38%.
The poll, which has a margin of error of two points, was conducted between August 30 and September 1 (following last Sunday’s presidential debate) and reaffirms the strong bipolarization between Lula and Bolsonaro as no other candidate manages to reach double digits. exceed in voting intentions.
Source: DN
