Brazil election: leftwinger Fernando Haddad narrows lead in polls ahead of runoff

But the Workers party candidate suffers blow after he fails to win the backing of key state governor ousted in first-round voting

Brazil’s leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad has narrowed the lead of his rightwing rival Jair Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s election runoff, according to two polls published on the eve of the election.

Haddad narrowed Bolsonaro’s lead to eight percentage points in an Ibope poll released late on Saturday, a survey that gave him 46% compared with Bolsonaro’s 54%.

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