President gains ground in election race

A new poll by Datafolha has shown that president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has increased the number of potential votes in his bid for a second term. According to the research taken by Globo TV and the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, Mr. Da Silva's government has a 52 percent approval rate, the highest since Datafolha began taking these polls, in 1987. The current president jumped 2 points in the election race and now has 49% of the intended votes, against 25% by former Sao Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin, and 11% by Heloisa Helena.