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Lula leads Flavio Bolsonaro in potential Brazil runoff, poll shows

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SAO PAULO, July 29 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads ​a potential second-round vote in ‌the October presidential election against opposition Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll ​showed on Wednesday.

Lula would receive ​49.2% of votes in a runoff, ⁠compared with 42.9% for Flavio ​Bolsonaro, the son of ex-President ​Jair Bolsonaro, the poll showed. In June, Lula had 48.8% of votes vs Bolsonaro's ​42.3%.
Undecided voters and those intending ​to cast blank or spoiled ballots fell ‌to ⁠7.9% from 8.9% in June.

In a first-round scenario, Lula leads with 44.9% of the vote, followed ​by Senator ​Bolsonaro at ⁠35.8%, Renan Santos at 7.8%, Ronaldo Caiado at ​3.1%, and Romeu Zema at ​2.8%.

The ⁠poll surveyed 5,021 people between July 22 and 27; it has ⁠a ​margin of error ​of one percentage point in either direction.