Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff, the chosen successor of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, opened up a 23-point lead over rival candidate Jose Serra less than a week before the election, according to Ibope opinion poll released today.
Support for former Cabinet chief Rousseff rose to 50 percent of those surveyed in the Ibope poll conducted Sept. 25- 27 for the National Industrial Confederation, or CNI, up from 38 percent in the previous poll taken in June.
The nationwide poll of 3,010 people was taken Sept. 25-27 and has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
Former Sao Paulo Governor Jose Serra, of the opposition Social Democracy Party, had 27 percent, down from 32 percent in June. Backing for Green Party candidate Marina Silva rose to 13 percent from 7 percent.
The real gained 0.3 percent to 1.7035 per dollar at 9:17 a.m. New York time from 1.7079 yesterday.
Bloomberg
By Andre Soliani
-Editors: Robert Jameson, Joshua Goodman
To contact the reporter on this story: Andre Soliani in Brasilia at asoliani@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at jgoodman19@bloomberg.net
