Brazil’s Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro still essentially tied in new poll
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is up two points, but that's still within the poll's margin of error.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has maintained a two-percentage-point lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, his main challenger, in a potential run-off ahead of October’s presidential election, a Datafolha poll has shown.
In poll results released Thursday, Lula would receive 47 percent of the vote compared with 45 percent for Bolsonaro in a simulated run-off. A previous Datafolha poll last week had Lula leading Bolsonaro by 46 percent to 44 percent.
The result also represents a technical tie as it falls within the poll’s margin of error of 2 percentage points.
The previous poll showed the leftist president with 39 percent against the right-wing senator’s 36 percent.