Brazil's leftist presidential front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to meet with the top U.S. diplomat in the country on Wednesday, less then two weeks before the first-round vote in the country's most fraught election in years.
Lula, who opinion polls show has a sizeable lead over his far-right rival President Jair Bolsonaro, will meet with Charge d'Affaires Douglas Koneff, as there is currently no U.S ambassador in Brasilia. His meeting was confirmed by the U.S. embassy.
