Lula leads Bolsonaro in voting intention in Brazil

The poll indicates that Lula would obtain 43.4 percent, while Bolsonaro would be backed with 34.8 percent of the vote.

The leader of the Workers' Party (PT) and Brazilian presidential candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, continues to lead the voting intentions ahead of the elections next October, a survey by the MDA Research Institute indicated this Friday.

The poll indicates that Lula would obtain 43.4 percent of the vote, while the current Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, would be backed with 34.8 percent.

In this sense, the former president increased by 1.1 percent compared to the survey published last August. For his part, Bolsonaro also had an increase of 0.7 percent compared to the previous month.

They are followed by former minister Ciro Gomes with 5.6 percent, as well as senator Simone Tebet with 4.7 percent, being a technical tie. The other candidates received less than one percent, including Soraya Thronicke (0.7 percent), Felipe D'avila (0.3 percent), Vera Lúcia (0.2 percent), and Sofía Manzano (0.1 percent). percent).

The survey recorded that the blank and invalid votes would represent 4.1 percent, and the undecided would be 6 percent.

Faced with a second electoral round between Lula and Bolsonaro, the PT leader would win with 49.4 percent of the votes, while Bolsonaro would get 39.3 percent of the votes. If Lula and Gomes confront each other, the former president would win with 47.5 percent compared to 30.9 percent for the former minister.

For this survey, 2,002 people were interviewed between September 12 and 14, with a confidence level of 95 percent and a margin of error of 2.2 percent.