Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, presidential candidate of the Workers Party (PT), participates in the first Presidential Debate ahead of the national election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 28, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel
Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains a 12-percentage-point lead over far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the October election, according to a new poll published on Monday.
The survey by IPEC, formerly known as IBOPE, showed Lula with 44% of voter support against 32% for Bolsonaro in the first round of the election schedule for Oct. 2, the same percentage of a poll from two weeks ago.
In an expected second round run-off, Lula's lead shrank to 13 percentage points, from 16 two weeks ago. The former leftist president had 50% of voter support, while Bolsonaro's increased to 37%.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (PL), speaks during the first Presidential Debate ahead of the national election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 28, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel
It was IPEC's second national poll of voter intentions and was based on interviews of 2,000 people in person between Aug. 26-28. The poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points up or down.
(Reporting by Carolina Pulice; Editing by Sandra Maler)
Simone Tebet, presidential candidate of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), raises her hand as Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (PL), and Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, presidential candidate of the Workers Party (PT), look on during the first Presidential Debate ahead of the national election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 28, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel
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