In the first round, the former left-wing president came out on top with 48% of the vote, against 43% for his rival.
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The gap is narrowing: former President Lula is credited with 52% of the voting intentions expressed, against 48% for the outgoing head of state, according to a latest survey by the benchmark institute Datafolha, published on Wednesday. October 19. Brazilian far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, candidate for re-election, thus slightly catches up with his opponent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, eleven days before the second round of the presidential election on October 30.
In a previous survey, published on October 14, Lula was credited with 53% of voting intentions, against 47% for Jair Bolsonaro. In the first round, on October 2, the former left-wing president came out on top with 48% of the vote, against 43% for his rival.
The various polling institutes had been widely criticized on this occasion for not having anticipated the high score of the outgoing president, to which they attributed a maximum of 37%. In the home stretch of a campaign at loggerheads, between misinformation and accusations of cannibalism or pedophilia, the candidates are trying to convince undecided voters and those who say they will vote blank or null.