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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentines in the nation's capital voted Sunday for a new mayor, with pre-election polls suggesting most would swing right and elect the president of Argentina's most popular soccer team.
President Nestor Kirchner campaigned for the candidate of his center-left coalition, Daniel Filmus, but the former education minister had much less name recognition than Mauricio Macri, a 48-year-old businessman who saluted his team before millions on television this week after Boca Juniors won Latin America's prestigious Copa Libertadores championship.
With October's presidential elections looming, Kirchner cast Macri as the second coming of former President Carlos Menem, whose close alliance with the United States and adherence to Washington's policies are blamed by many Argentines for the 2002 economic crisis that robbed many of two-thirds of their savings overnight.
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