Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, favorite in the second round of the presidential election in Brazil, conceded on Thursday October 20 that the progress of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro in the latest poll is a warning, but said he was "
sure
" to win on October 30.
“
The poll only serves to alert us
,” declared the former left-wing president (2003-2010) at a press conference in Rio, the day after the publication of the Datafolha Institute poll which placed at the top of the voting intentions (49%, stable), against 45% for Jair Bolsonaro who gains a point in the margin of error (+/- 2 points).
But "
I'm sure we'll win the election
," he said.
"
It seems impossible to me that he (Bolsonaro) will erase the difference in a week, even with the crazy things he does and the lies he tells
."
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21 point lead in May
Long before the start of the official campaign, Lula was always a winner: in May, he even had a 21-point lead according to Datafolha.
But the far-right candidate reduced his delay to 5 points in the first round on October 2, obtaining 43% of the vote, a difference much smaller than that envisaged by the pollsters.
With 10 days to vote, the finalists have to try to convince undecided voters (1%) and those who say they will vote blank or null (4%).
"
We are fighting for this so-called abstention vote, of those who did not go to vote (...) because the election is very close, the number of people we have to convince is increasingly reduced
", explained Lula.