SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is leading right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, with 49% of voter support against the incumbent’s 44% ahead of an Oct. 30 runoff vote, according to a poll by Datafolha published on Friday.
The result is the same as last week, in Datafolha’s first poll after the Oct. 2 first-round vote.
Datafolha interviewed 2,898 people on Oct. 13-14 and the poll had a margin of error of 2 percentage points up or down.
The pollster was one of several polling firms criticized for underestimating support for Bolsonaro in the first round, in which Lula garnered 48% of the votes to Bolsonaro’s 43%.
(Reporting by Carolina Pulice and Peter Frontini; Editing by Chris Reese)
