President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro remain in a statistical dead heat ahead of Brazil's October 4 presidential election, with neither candidate approaching the 50% threshold needed to win outright, according to multiple polls through September 25. Economic scandals involving Bolsonaro have failed to break the deadlock in what polls show as an extremely competitive race less than two weeks before voting.
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro remain tied ahead of Brazil’s October election, according to a new poll, as a crisis inside the Supreme Court continues to weigh on both candidates.
SAO PAULO, Sept 23 - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro remain statistically tied in a simulated runoff ahead of next month's election, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Wednesday, with the leftist incumbent now holding a narrow lead within the survey's margin of error.
SAO PAULO, Sept 24 - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has maintained a two-percentage-point lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, his main challenger, in a potential runoff ahead of October's election, a Datafolha poll showed on Thursday.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro are deadlocked less than two weeks before Brazil’s election, a new poll showed, following fresh revelations about the challenger’s ties to a jailed banker at the center of a massive fraud scheme.
Neither of Brazil's two leading presidential candidates is approaching the threshold needed to win outright on October 4, according to the latest Datafolha poll, which puts President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 40% of voting intentions and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on 36%.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is up two points, but that's still within the poll's margin of error.