Lula Offers to Lift Bank Secrecy as Bolsonaro\u2019s Wealth Faces Scrutiny<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIf the election were held today, the far-right candidate, who received the most votes in the first round, would receive 45% of the vote, while the progressive president would garner 44%, indicating that the two remain statistically tied because the poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the poll conducted last week by the same firm, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) had 46% of voter support, a decline of 1 point, while Lula, who is seeking reelection and a fourth nonconsecutive term, had 44%, unchanged from the previous survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new poll, released just four days before the runoff scheduled for Oct. 25, confirmed that the presidential election ranks among Brazil\u2019s most polarized, with the country still divided between the progressivism led by Lula and the far-right politics of the Bolsonaro clan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Quaest, which interviewed 2,154 voters between Saturday and Tuesday, the percentage of undecided voters rose from 1% to 2% over the past week, while the percentage of those intending to cast blank ballots or invalidate their votes remained at 9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new poll was conducted after the candidates\u2019 first televised debate on Oct. 18 and after the Brazilian president announced new measures. In addition to the reduction of the workweek from 44 to 40 hours, with two days off and no reduction in pay, Lula announced in recent days a measure to forgive microentrepreneurs\u2019 debts and a bill to provide free bus transportation on weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bolsonaro received the most votes in the first round of the presidential election, with 47.03%, while Lula finished second with 45.16%, leaving a gap of less than 2 percentage points between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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