The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvawho is seeking reelection in the October elections in Brazil, leads with 37% of voting intentions, while his main rival, Senator Flavio Bolsonaroremains at 30%, according to a survey released this Wednesday.
The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvawho is seeking reelection in the October elections in Brazil, leads with 37% of voting intentions, while his main rival, Senator Flavio Bolsonaroremains at 30%, according to a survey released this Wednesday.
The big news in the survey by the Quaest firm is the rise of the writer Augusto Cury, a neophyte in politics nominated by the center party Avante, who appears in third place, with 10%, eight points more than what he had in previous surveys.
Quaest’s new study, which interviewed 2,004 voters between August 30 and September 1, and has a margin of error of two percentage points, is the first from this company since candidates began to spread their electoral propaganda on radio and television.
Although the pollsters consider that these circumstances make the new survey technically incomparable with the previous ones, the results indicate that the differentiates between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro It fell two points in the last month and five in the last two.
While the progressive leader had 40% of the voting intention in the July poll and 39% in the August poll, the far-right senator, the first-born of former president Jair Bolsonaro, appeared with 28% in July and 30% in August.
In the same period, Cury advanced eight points and, with 10%, stands out among the candidates trying to end the current polarization in the Brazilian electoral campaign.
The growth of the writer, who defends positions on both the right and the left, coincides with his advancement on social networks, where he has gained millions of followers.
The elected president of the leftist Workers’ Party (PT), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, speaks after winning the second round of the presidential elections, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 30, 2022. – Veteran Brazilian leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected president on Sunday. by a hair, edging out his far-right rival in a poll that split the country in two, election officials said. (Photo by NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP)
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The voting intention of the other ten candidates was reduced and now none of those who try to present themselves as a third way, outside of Cury, appear with more than 3% of favoritism.
According to the new poll, the fourth placed is the far-right activist Renan Santos, from the Mission party, with 3%; and fifth place is shared by the former governor of Goiás Ronaldo Caiado and the former governor of Minas Gerais Romeu Zema, both from center-right parties, with 1%.
According to Quaest’s new poll, Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro remain technically tied in an eventual second round, in which the president appears with 42% and the senator with 41%.
The distance between the two was reduced from three percentage points to one point compared to the survey released on August 14.
