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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips in Buenos Aires

‘He acts like Wolverine’: who is Javier Milei, Argentina’s presidential frontrunner?

Javier Milei waves to supporters during a campaign rally in Salta, Argentina.
Javier Milei waves to supporters during a campaign rally in Salta, Argentina. Photograph: Javier Corbalan/AP

The hairstylist responsible for Argentina’s most famous sideburns believes people don’t always vote based on what they hear: “They vote with what they see.”

With that in mind, Lilia Lemoine used her scissors to turn the man she wants as the country’s next president – wild-haired celebrity economist Javier Milei – into what she considers an irresistible proposition: a South American fusion of Elvis Presley and the adamantium-clawed mutant Wolverine.

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