The far-right candidate’s attacks on the electoral process raises fears that he might not accept a negative result in Sunday’s vote
Hundreds of demonstrators had swarmed around Buenos Aires’s iconic Obelisk to champion the man they call “El Peluca” – the Wig.
“You can feel it! You can feel it! Peluca presidente!” the marchers chanted of their wild-thatched leader, the far-right populist Javier Milei.
Among the crowd was Esteban Elías Lozupone, a 48-year-old taxi driver who had brought his daughter to witness the pro-Milei rally on the eve of one of Argentina’s most crucial presidential elections in decades.
“We’re trying to change things. Otherwise this country won’t progress,” said Lozupone whose 11-year-old wore a rattlesnake Gadsden flag – a symbol of Milei’s movement and the US far right – around her neck.
Like millions of Argentinians, Lozupone is electrified by the prospect of Milei winning Sunday’s election – believing the anti-establishment economist can haul the South American country out of years of financial misery with radical measures including abolishing the central bank and dollarising the economy. Polls suggest Milei enjoys a slender advantage over his opponent, the centrist finance minister, Sergio Massa, whose Peronist administration is widely blamed for plunging Argentina into its worst economic crisis in two decades.
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