Portraits of Bolsonaro and Lola da Silva at a street booth in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: EFE.
A new investigation by the pollster datafolha Friday showed that Brazil’s presidential candidate for the Workers’ Party (PT), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had secured 53 percent of the valid votes ahead of the second round to be held on October 30.
The poll indicated that Lula would defeat the country’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, who would receive 47 percent of the valid vote, which does not include null or invalid votes.
In terms of voting intentions, the former Brazilian president got 49 percent against Bolsonaro’s 44 percent.
On the other hand, the poll put the total undecided at 2 per cent, while the null and void votes scored 6 per cent.
✊🏾🇧🇷 🚩 It’s not long ago that Brazil had to be happy in Novo!
The Datafolha poll released this sixth (7) year showed Lula with 53% two valid votes against Bolsonaro with 47%.
Let’s take to the streets for dialogue with the Brazilian people, and also hope for a more just and dignified country. pic.twitter.com/vPOici6y3J
– MST Official (MST_Oficial) October 7, 2022
For this survey, 2,884 people were interviewed across the territory, between October 5 and 7, and it was registered with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
This data provided by Datafolha is the first after the first election round, held on October 2, in which Lula received 48.4% of the valid votes and Bolsonaro came second with 43.2%.
Quest’s director, Felipe Nunes, indicated the need to pay more attention to “the details of the match”, as there will be several factors that will make the difference in the second presidential round in Brazil, including the possibility of a return. From the Labor Party, opinion about the candidates, and “deserve a second chance.”
“These are three indicators that will make the difference in this new cycle of differences between two men who are looking for a new opportunity to prove to Brazil that they can be better,” he said.
🇧🇷 Datfulha | Valid votes second round chief
God: 53%
Bolsonaro: 47%–
Total votes: Lula 49%, Bolsonaro 44%, null and invalid 6%, undecided 2%.
Interview: 2884 people between 5-7/10
Margin of error: 2% plus or minus– Andre Vieira (@AndreteleSUR) October 7, 2022
For his part, Lula said through his account on the social networking site Twitter, “I am not worried about fighting Bolsonaro. I want to fight hunger, and against the lack of investment in education.”
When the head of state does not know what to do, he regulates those who do. “He has not done that, neither in the economy, nor in education, nor in the pandemic,” he said of Bolsonaro’s administration. We have ended hunger in this country, and brought it back. He stressed that I would take Brazil back.”
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