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Aug 29 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains a 12 percentage point lead over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro ahead of October’s election, according to a new poll released on Monday.
The IPEC poll, formerly known as IBOPE, showed Lula with 44 percent support from voters to 32 percent for Bolsonaro in the first round of the Oct. 2 election schedule, the same percentage from a poll two weeks ago.
In the expected runoff, Lula’s lead has shrunk to 13 percentage points from 16 two weeks ago. The former leftist president had 50% support from voters, while Bolsonaro increased to 37%.
This was IPEC’s second national survey of voter intentions and was based on interviews with 2,000 people in person between August 26-28. The poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points up or down.
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Reporting by Carolina Pulis; Editing by Sandra Mahler
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