Brazil's Far-Right Candidate Leads Presidential Race - Poll

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Brazil's Far-Right Candidate Leads Presidential Race - Poll

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 24th October, 2018) Brazil's far-right presidential hopeful Jair Bolsonaro is leading the race against his leftist rival Fernando Haddad with a 14-percent gap, the latest poll showed.

Bolsonaro is projected to win 57 percent of votes, according to Tuesday's IPOB poll commissioned by O Globo and O Estado de S.

Paulo. He is trailed by the Workers' Party challenger with 43 percent.

The pollster said Haddad had recently gained on the frontrunner, narrowing the gap by 4 percentage points less than a week before the two face off in the second round of voting this Sunday.

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