BrasíliaFlávio Bolsonaro leads Lula 46% to 44%.
The poll’s 2-point margin of error makes it a technical tie, 10 days before the runoff.
He won round one with 47% to Lula’s 45.2%, as his father Jair serves 27 years for coup-plotting.
The Senate passed a 40-hour week 75 to 1, with Bolsonaro voting yes after opposing it.
Brazil votes 25 October, and the two candidates have yet to debate face to face.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 300+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- Bloomberg Business
- BBC
- frames the 40-hour week amendment as Lula's electoral lever before the 25 October runoff, noting ~70% public support
- Investing.com
- Yahoo News leans critical
- centres Amazonian Indigenous fear, quoting Satere-Mawe leader Inara Waty on what the Bolsonaro surname means for forest communities
Sources: Bloomberg Business, BBC, Investing.com, Yahoo News