Lula sees very tight Brazil election as rival surges

Bloomberg

Leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva considers that Brazil’s election is “very tight” and will be decided by those who didn’t show up to vote in the first round earlier this month.
“A lot of Brazilians have already made up their minds and the number of people we need to convince is growing smaller,” he told reporters on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro. “We are fighting for the abstention vote.”
Opinion polls show President Jair Bolsonaro is chipping away at Lula’s lead in the run-up to the Oct. 30 runoff vote. An Exame/Ideia survey published earlier in the day had both candidates statistically tied.