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00:00 He held his closing campaign rally at an arena known for its rock concerts in front of thousands of supporters.
00:06 Political firebrand and frontrunner Javier Milley vowed to change the "decadent system" if elected on Sunday.
00:13 "Let's go to the polls. Let's go vote. Don't stay in your homes.
00:19 Take your children, take your parents, take your friends and take hope in your hearts because Argentina has a future.
00:25 But that future only exists if that future is liberal. Long live freedom, damn it!"
00:30 Variously described as a libertarian, populist and ultra-conservative,
00:37 economist-turned-lawmaker Milley made a name for himself by railing against Argentina's political cast on television.
00:44 He admires Donald Trump and says the answer to reigning in chronically high inflation is to get rid of the central bank and dollarize the economy.
00:54 Amid the country's cost-of-living crisis, many young Argentinians are pinning their hopes on Milley,
00:59 who also wants to radically shrink the state, relax controls on guns and reverse the legalization of abortion.
01:06 Sergio Massa of the governing left-of-center coalition is perhaps Milley's strongest rival,
01:12 despite the turbulence he has overseen as economy minister. At his closing rally, he said the worst of the crisis has passed.
01:22 "We want to discuss with the International Monetary Fund a
01:25 program that has to do with the growth and development of Argentina and
01:30 not with inflation and the accumulation of reserves so that they can collect their debt."
01:35 Patricia Bulrich of the main right-of-center opposition coalition is also polling well.
01:41 "Milley's ideas are bad ideas."
01:44 Both Bulrich and Massa convey themselves as safer bets to govern the crisis-engulfed country,
01:50 while Milley points to them as embodiments of an entrenched establishment.
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