Brazilian presidential candidate and ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva led the latest pre-election poll with 45% of the vote, trailed by incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro with 32%, a Datafolha poll showed.
Lula da Silva, a candidate of the Workers' Party, slipped 2 percentage points from 47% in the last survey on Aug. 18, while Bolsonaro remained steady at 32%, Xinhua reported on Friday.
Candidate Ciro Gomes of the Democratic Labor Party was in the third place with 9% of the vote, followed by Tebet of the Brazilian Democracy Movement with 5%.
The data was collected from 5,734 people in 284 municipalities between Aug. 30 and Sept. 1 to capture the nation's reaction to the first televised presidential debate held on Aug. 28 in the city of Sao Paulo.
