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Brazil's Marina Silva widens lead over President Dilma Rousseff ahead of presidential election

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Environmentalist Marina Silva has widened her lead over President Dilma Rousseff to 10% points in a likely second-round runoff in Brazil's October election, a survey by polling firm Datafolha showed on Friday.

It was the third poll in less than a week that projected the October 5 election would go to a second-round vote in which Rousseff would be unseated by Silva, who entered the race just 10 days ago following the death of her party's candidate.

Silva has surged to 34% from 21% in a previous Datafolha poll conducted before she launched her candidacy, while Rousseff's support has fallen to 34% from 36% in a first-round vote.

If the race goes to a runoff on October 26 as expected, Silva would win 50 percent of the votes, while Rousseff would get 40%, widening her margin of victory from six to 10% points, according to Datafolha.

Support for centrist candidate and market favorite Aecio Neves has dropped to 15% from 20% in the previous poll on August 18.

The poll of 2,844 eligible voters was conducted August 28-29 and has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points. The results were broadcast on TV Globo's nightly news program.

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