BRASILIA.– The advantage of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on President Jair Bolsonaro was reduced to 7 percentage points ahead of the October elections, according to a new survey published today.
The leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) has the support of 41% of voters compared to 34% of his far-right adversarycompared with 44% and 31%, respectively, last month, the BTG/FSB telephone survey said.
Lula’s lead steadily dropped to 7 points, compared to 13 last month and 14 in Mayaccording to the survey.
Other polls show that Lula’s strong lead is shrinking but remains in double digits: Datafolha estimated that Lula leads Bolsonaro by 18 points and a Genial/Quaest poll last week said that the difference fell to 12 points from 14 points.
Lula would win a second round once morest Bolsonaro by 51% to 39% if the vote were todaya 12-point lead that has narrowed from 18 points last month, the BTG/FSB survey said.
Bolsonaro has increased social spendingpaying higher monthly stipends to low-income families starting Tuesday, and has worked to reduce fuel costs that have fueled inflation, the main complaint of voters.
His negative numbers have dropped and 44% of those surveyed consider their government as bad or terrible, compared to 50% at the beginning of Junewhile 53% say they would never vote for him, up from 59% in June, according to the new poll. The rate of rejection of Lula has risen slightly, to 45% of votersaccording to the survey.
The polling firm FSB’s survey, commissioned by investment bank BTG Pactual, surveyed 2,000 people between August 5 and 7 and has a margin of error of two percentage points up or down.
Archyde.com Agency
