Decades after the deaths of Juan and Eva Perón the shape-shifting movement they founded is more influential than ever. The question is not whether the next president will be a Peronist but what sort of Peronist he will beAmong the quirkiest revelations to emerge from the Argentinian presidential election campaign has been the lengths that frontrunner Daniel Scioli is willing to go to feel loved on a football pitch.
Ahead of Sunday’s vote,it has emerged that the wealthy 58-year-primitive built his own pitch within his private residence, arranged sponsorship for his team-mates and commissioned an artist to fill the viewing gallery with life-sized figurines of his political heroes, and including Barack Obama,Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Source: theguardian.com