Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would win October’s elections on the first round with 43 percent of voting intentions, compared with 29 percent for President Jair Bolsonaro, a poll released today showed.
The telephone survey by PR and communications institute FSB, sponsored by bank BTG Pactual, also shows that in the secondround scenario, Lula has 54 percent versus Bolsonaro’s 35 percent.
It also indicates a “difficult path” for the third way for other rulers.
«The context of political polarization anticipates voters’ decisions. This means that the options for candidates other than Lula and Bolsonaro are much more limited today, said FSB director André Jácomo.
Jácomo claimed that only 11 percent of voters said they would vote “neither for Bolsonaro nor for Lula”.
According to the survey, the founder of the Labor Party (PT) is the bestprepared candidate in every respect according to voters.
In this sense, when fighting poverty, maintaining or expanding social programs for income distribution, creating jobs and controlling price increases.
Likewise in promoting the growth of the Brazilian economy, lowering taxes, fighting the Covid19 pandemic and corruption.
Two thousand people were interviewed by telephone between March 18 and 20 in the survey.
The confidence interval is 95 percent and the margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points.
Last week, the former president confirmed that he should make his candidacy official at the end of April, to announce support from other parties on his behalf.
“I speak to a lot of people. I don’t just want to run for the PT, I want to run for a movement,” he said.
He expressed concern about his safety in the Oct. 2 elections and that his main opponent Bolsonaro “only likes violence”, but said he will not stop fighting in the streets.
Lula’s voting intent has increased since he regained his political rights in March 2021 after a federal court judge overturned all of his convictions.