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Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) maintained his lead in the race for the Presidential Palace in the October election, with 45 percent of voter preference in a first-round simulation, against 31 percent for President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), showed a Genial/Quaest poll released Wednesday.
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This result would give the Brazilian presidential candidate victory already in the first round on October 2, according to the survey, since Lula has a higher percentage than the sum of his opponents. Lula oscillated 1 point down in relation to last month, while Bolsonaro oscillated 1 point up, which made the difference between the two candidates retreat from 16 to 14 points this month. The survey’s margin of error is 2 percentage points.
