Tue 25 October 2022:
With less than a week until a runoff election, a poll released on Monday indicates that leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is leading President Jair Bolsonaro by 7 percentage points.
The results are consistent with last week’s, with Lula continuing to receive 50% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 43%.
Between October 22 and October 24, pollster IPEC interviewed 3,008 people for a survey with a plus or minus 2 percentage point margin of error.
Several polling companies, including IPEC, came under fire for underestimating Bolsonaro’s support in the first round of voting.
The runoff in Brazil is scheduled for October 30.
Accept election result
Lula said during a news conference in Sao Paulo on Monday that if he were to win the tightly fought contest, he hoped Bolsonaro “will have a moment of sanity and phone me to accept the election result”.
“If Bolsonaro loses and he wants to cry … I lost three elections,” said Lula, who served two terms as president from 2003 to 2010. “Each time I lost, I went home. I didn’t keep cursing, being agitated.”
For months, experts have raised concerns that Bolsonaro will not accept the results of what has been one of the most divisive elections in Brazil’s history.
The former army captain has repeatedly said without evidence that the country’s electronic voting system is vulnerable to fraud — spurring fears that he plans to contest the outcome, similarly to former US President Donald Trump, whom he has emulated.
Judicial experts have rejected Bolsonaro’s fraud claims as baseless.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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