Rousseff Poll Lead Narrows as Brazil Second Round Looms
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s lead over her main contender in the October election narrowed, indicating she may not have enough support to win in a first round vote.
Rousseff’s support was little changed at 37 percent this month from 38 percent in April, according to a Datafolha poll published today on Folha de Sao Paulo’s website. Senator Aecio Neves of the Social Democracy Party had 20 percent, up from 16 percent last month. The sum of all of Rousseff’s ten challengers exceeds her support by one percentage point in the May 7-8 survey of 2,844 people. The poll had a margin of error of 2 percentage points.