Brazil’s Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro are neck and neck in presidential runoff, poll finds

SAO PAULO, April 28 (Reuters) - Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro were tied in a simulated run-off, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Tuesday, ahead of this year’s presidential election. • Right-wing challenger Bolsonaro would receive 47.8% of the vote in a second round of voting, compared with 47.5% for the leftist incumbent. • In a March poll, Bolsonaro had 47.6% to Lula’s 46.6%. • A BTG Pactual/Nexus poll on Monday had also shown the two frontrunners were statistically tied. • In two first-round simulations, Lula was expected to win between 44.2% and 46.6% of the vote, while Bolsonaro would take between 39.3% and 39.7%, depending on other candidates.

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