Brazil Presidential Candidates Serra, Rousseff Tied - Poll

July 2nd, 2010

Dilma Rousseff, chief of staff to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Brazilian opposition candidate Jose Serra of the Social Democrats, is tied with the presidential nominee of the ruling Workers’ Party, Dilma Rousseff, according to a poll released Friday by the Datafolha polling institute.

The poll showed Serra with 39% of voter intentions against 38% for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s hand-picked Workers’ Party candidate Rousseff.

Datafolha said it was considered a tie given poll’s margin of error of two percentage points.

In a similar Datafolha poll released in May, Serra scored 37% of voter intentions, while Rousseff also scored 37% of voter intentions.

Trailing Rousseff and Serra was Green Party candidate Marina Silva, with backing from 9% of respondents.

Earlier this month, other polls showed Rousseff gaining ground. Ibope and Vox Populi polling institutes, showed Rousseff with 45% of the vote against 38% for Serra.

Datafolha, the polling institute of Brazil‘s largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo, interviewed 2,658 voting-age Brazilians nationwide on June 30 and July 1.

The presidential election will take place in October.

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