An overwhelming majority of polls in Brazil indicate that conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro is ahead of incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the nation is hours away from the October 25 runoff election.
\n\nOver 158 million Brazilian voters are called to head to the polls on Sunday to choose between Bolsonaro and Lula as their president for the next four years. On Friday morning, the Brazilian outlet Poder 360 published a summary containing the results of the latest 17 surveys conducted by the nation’s top polling firms.
\n\nOut of the total, Sen. Bolsonaro appears numerically ahead in 15 out of the 17 polls, while Lula only appears as the winner in a poll conducted by the firm Vox Brasil. Both candidates appear tied with 50 percent each in the latest poll conducted by the left-leaning Datafolha firm. All 17 polls were conducted across different dates throughout mid-October.
\n\nAlthough Bolsonaro is ahead in the majority of the polls, the outlet observed that the percentage differences are “within the margin of error,” indicating the possibility of a close race between the candidates on Sunday. The conservative senator defied first-round polling and defeated Lula in the October 4 first round…
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