BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has increased his lead slightly over his far-right adversary President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s runoff election.
Lula leads by 52.0% of the votes against 46.2% for Bolsonaro, according to the AtlasIntel poll, inching forward from 51.1% to Bolsonaro’s 46.5% in the previous poll two weeks ago.
The poll was completed before a shooting incident on Sunday involving Bolsonaro supporter Roberto Jefferson. It has a margin of error of 1 percentage point plus or minus, Atlas Intel said.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
