MOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is reportedly losing ground ahead of the runoff and has been surpassed by the opposition candidate Aecio Neves, the recent poll conducted by Sensus revealed.
According to the poll by Sensus research institute published on Friday, 56.4 percent of those who were asked would cast their votes for Neves, president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, whereas 43.6 percent would vote for the incumbent, leader of the Workers' Party.
However, Rousseff enjoyed the narrow majority of 45 percent of votes against Neves' 43 percent in the polls released earlier this week by Brazil's Datafolha and Ibope polling institutions.
In the first round of the presidential election on October 5 Rousseff secured 41.6 percent of the vote. Her opponent, Aecio Neves, trying to persuade Brazilians on the necessity of the economic reforms he proposes, got 33.6 percent.
Presidential election's runoff in Brazil is scheduled for October 26.
Under Rousseff's presidency, unemployment has been lower than under any of her predecessors, at about 5 percent. The minimum wage has risen and the number of undernourished Brazilians has been falling.
However, recently Brazil has seen widespread recession and corruption scandals, as well as mass protests over the quality of public services and the World Cup costs.
