Brasilia, Oct 26 (IANS/EFE) The Brazilian opposition candidate, Aecio Neves, led incumbent President Dilma Rousseff by one-and-a-half percent in an opinion poll, as they approached Sunday's presidential runoff.
The poll, released Saturday showed Neves with 50.3 percent of valid votes against 49.7 percent for Rousseff.
The survey, taken from a sample of 2,002 respondents in 137 municipalities, has a margin of 2.2 percent, and so the two candidates are in a "technical tie".
The result reflects Neves' progress in the electoral race and the president's slide.
Two surveys published this week by Datafolha and Ibope, the two most trusted opinion polls in the country, showed Rousseff with an advantage of between six and eight percentage points over Neves.
In the first round of voting Oct 5, Rousseff won 41.5 percent of the votes, while Neves took in 33.5 percent.
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