The second phase of voting or runoff in the Brazilian presidential election will be held on October 30. The country's former president and left-wing leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing leader and current president Jair Bolsonaro will fight in the runoff. A poll was released on Friday ahead of the run-off vote. As a result of the survey, Lula is ahead of Bolsonaro. But the gap between them is less. As a result, there is a glimpse of the fight for the upcoming presidential election.
The poll by the Datafolha Institute found that 53 percent of respondents supported Lula and 47 percent supported Bolsonaro. On Thursday and Friday, 2,898 voters took part in the data follower survey. The latest poll by the same organization on October 7 had the same level of support between the two candidates.
However, the results of the latest survey were released amid questions about the survey by the surveying institutions in Brazil. The controversy over the survey is mainly about the first phase of the October 2 elections. Bolsonaro is trailing Lula by 14 points in the first round, according to a Datafolher poll before the first round. But in the end, the difference in the first round of elections was 5 points. In the first round, Lula won 48 percent and Bolsonaro 43 percent.
Bolsonaro also criticized it after the first round of elections. He alleged that polling firms were trying to misrepresent his popularity with Brazilian voters. The hard-right president added, 'We have defeated lies.' Federal police launched an investigation into survey firms on Thursday following Bolsonaro's allegations and at the request of Brazil's Ministry of Justice.
In Brazil, a candidate must receive 50 percent of the vote to be elected president. But right-wing leader and current president Jair Bolsonaro and left-wing candidate and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva failed to win the first round on October 2, leading to a run-off.
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