Lula da Silva recognizes Bolsonaro has same chances of winning runoff elections

The former president and candidate for the presidency of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party – PT, left), has been alerted by recent polls that the current Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party – PL, right), continues to advance.

On Thursday, October 20, da Silva said in Rio de Janeiro that the result of the Datafolha poll released recently serves as a warning for his campaign but has shown confidence in victory considering that Bolsonaro has gained points “slowly”, while the runoff elections will occur on Sunday, October 30.

“I am aware of the poll, and I think it is just a warning. There is little more than a week of campaigning left,” da Silva declared, the newspaper ‘Folha de S.Paulo’ reported.

The leader of the Workers’ Party has assured that “the election is very close” so that the vote count “is getting tighter and tighter”.

“We are disputing the abstention vote of small sectors of society because the election is very disputed. It is increasingly complicated to convince them to vote for the candidates,” he explained.

Ten days before the second round of the presidential elections in Brazil, the current Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, is getting closer and closer to his opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the polls.

With information from Gaceta

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