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In just over a week.

In just over a week.

In just over a week, Argentina will head to the polls to vote in a new president.

And one candidate is making some pretty big waves in this tight race.

He's a trained economist who thinks he can solve Argentina's triple digit inflation dilemma.

We've talked about Argentina's high inflation on the indicator before,

and right now that number stands at close to 140%.

Reporter Sharon Barrio is here to tell us more about this candidate who says

he has a bold plan to bring this number down.

Hey Sharon.

Hey Wailin. Yeah Yeah so this candidate's name is

Javier Malay. I think he's been making headlines outside of Argentina too. I've

definitely seen him in the news here. Oh yeah you know you probably have and he's got quite an

interesting look fake eyebrows bushy sideburns and acy blue eyes so just picture

if Beethoven and Elvis Presley had a kid and he really brings on the crowds too right?

Oh for sure I mean he's passionate Because I'm the verdadero position.

I'm the suneo that we want

a b bertadero cabmio.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

And actually in that speech, he was pretty excited because I mean he had just

won the largest share of primary votes and that was actually surprising to a lot of

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