SAO PAULO, April 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is narrowly ahead of right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro in a potential runoff in the October presidential election, a CNT/MDA poll showed on Tuesday.
* The survey showed Lula with 44.9% of the votes in arunoff, compared with 40.2% for Flavio Bolsonaro, the son offar-right former President Jair Bolsonaro. * In a first‑round poll in which respondents were asked whothey would vote for if the election were held today, Lula was at28.7% support versus 16.6% for Flavio Bolsonaro. * The CNT/MDA poll contrasts with several recent surveysthat have shown the two candidates statistically tied in arunoff. * Recent polling shows Lula's earlier lead is narrowing,with Flavio Bolsonaro gaining support after receiving publicbacking from his father, who is under house arrest. * Over the weekend, a Datafolha poll showed the youngerBolsonaro with 46% of the vote in a runoff, compared with 45%for Lula. * CNT/MDA interviewed 2,002 people from April 8-12 in 140Brazilian municipalities. The survey's margin of error is 2.2percentage points in either direction.
(Reporting by Isabel Teles and Eduardo Simoes; Editing by Paul Simao)
