Due to no campaign commitments this Sunday (16), candidates for President of the Republic should spend the day meeting with their campaign team to prepare for the group’s debate starting at 20:00. This will be the first meeting between President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) since the first round of elections.

According to Band, the rules for the first debate have already been agreed upon with the campaigns of the two candidates. In the first block, they will answer the same question. Each candidate will have one and a half minutes to respond. Everyone will then have 15 minutes to use as they see fit.

Lula and Jair Bolsonaro share Brazilian preferences – Photo: Rowena Rosa/Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil/North Dakota

In the second block, journalists will ask questions to the candidates, who will have one and a half minutes to answer. In the third block, the mediators will ask each candidate a question, which, again, will have a minute and a half to answer. After that, each of the two candidates will have 15 minutes, which they can use at their discretion. At the end of the debate, Bolsonaro and Lula will each have a minute and a half to make their final speeches.

In addition to the debate this Sunday, four more confrontations between the two presidential candidates are scheduled. Debate on Record TV is scheduled for next Sunday (23).

dead heat

According to a Paraná Research Institute poll released Thursday (13), the two candidates are technically equal. Bolsonaro has 44.1% intent to vote against Lula’s 47.6% in an incentivized scenario in which voters’ names are presented to voters. Spaces and zeros add up to 4.8%, and don’t know/didn’t answer 3.6%. Given valid votes (which exclude spaces and zeros), they remain in a technical tie. In this scenario, Lula has 51.9% against Bolsonaro’s 48.1%.

From October 8 to 12, the institute attended 2020 people. The survey’s confidence level is 95%, and the margin of error is plus or minus 2.2 percentage points in the overall results. The poll was commissioned by the Progressive Party and registered with the TSE (Higher Electoral Court) under number BR-08438/2022.