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Brazil's Lula widens lead slightly over Bolsonaro for Sunday vote -poll
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Anthony Boadle Reuters
Flavia Marreiro Reuters
PUBLISHED
OCT 24, 2022 03:53PM EDT
BRASILIA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has increased his lead slightly over his far-right adversary President Jair Bolsonaro six days ahead of their runoff in Brazil's divisive election, a Monday poll said.
Lula leads by 52.0% of the votes against 46.2% for Bolsonaro, according to the AtlasIntel poll, inching forward from 51.1% to Bolsonaro's 46.5% in the previous poll two weeks ago.
The poll was completed before a shooting incident on Sunday involving Bolsonaro supporter and former Congressman Roberto Jefferson, which had the president's campaign worried about a negative impact on opinion polls, a senior aide said.
The changes for both candidates were less than the margin of error of one percentage point, but with the election to be decided on Sunday even a stable race at this point favors frontrunner Lula.
More:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/brazils-lula-widens-lead-slightly-over-bolsonaro-for-sunday-vote-poll
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