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Business Matters: Argentina heads to the ballot box for presidential election

Argentina heads to the ballot box for presidential election

21/10/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Argentina heads to the ballot box for presidential election

People in Argentina heading to the voting centres on Sunday for the presidential election

Voters in Argentina will cast their ballots in what is widely considered to be the most unpredictable presidential contest since the nation's return to democracy 40 years ago.

Voters in Argentina will be heading to the voting centres on Sunday to cast their ballot in what is widely regarded as the most unpredictable presidential election since the country returned to democracy 40 years ago.

And this comes in the middle of an economic crisis with inflation is at almost 140%.
One of the Presidential candidates, Javier Milei is promising to dollarizing the economy and get rid of the local currency, the Peso. 

Rahul Tandon discusses this and more of the business news from around with Fermin Koop, Argentine freelance journalist on environmental and climate change, and Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Senior Correspondent and China Credit Reporter for Bloomberg who mainly covers China property debt. 

(Picture: A supporter of Argentina's presidential candidate, poses for a picture during the closing of a campaign in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires province, on October 19, 2023, ahead of Argentina's presidential election to be held on October 22. Photo Credit: JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)

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