Brazil's presidential race goes down to the wire, but Lula has edge

[Judi Lynn]

Online News Editor
October 29, 2022
1 minute read

Sao Paulo, Oct 29 (EFE).- Leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remained a favorite choice of Brazilian voters, holding a slender lead over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, according to two opinion polls released on the eve of the Sunday vote.

Lula was ahead of Bolsonaro by a margin of four to five percent votes, the surveys showed, a day before the Brazilians head to voting stations for the presidential run-off polls.

The survey by pollster Datafolha indicated that the leftist leader has the support of 49 percent of voters, compared to 45 percent for Bolsonaro. A two-point margin of error puts the contestants close to a technical tie. However, 4 percent of survey votes were deemed invalid, and another 2 percent were undecided.

Excluding invalid and blank votes, Lula would be left with 52 percent and Bolsonaro 48 percent, according to Datafolha, which puts the current president in striking distance from a difficult-but-yet-possible re-election.

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[SoCalDavidS]

1. It's Truly Amazing The # Of Deaths One Leader Can Cause, And Still Get The Support Of So Many

TFG, DeSatan, Abbott, Bolsonaro. All Killers with the way they handled Covid, and yet 45-55% of voters still gladly support them.

What a Fucked Up world we live in.

[Judi Lynn]

2. So true. Bolsonaro copied everything the malicious orange imposter Trump did with Covid.

Brazilians dropped like flies almost immediately. Photographers have published people digging rows and rows of graves near the ocean from the beginning of Bolsonaro's Covid victims just to have somewhere to stash them all.

That's REALLY evil. It seems so long ago, but I'm pretty sure when Covid struck here, they were actually having to use refrigerated trucks parked by hospitals to hold the quickly dropping US citizens, too. It seems like years and years ago, doesn't it?

Both those guys did it to the world's innocent people.

In Ecuador, they were simply placing some of them on sidewalks.

Trump started it all. Only criminals copied him.