Macri, free marketeer vowing reform in Argentina

His rivals dismissed him as a spoiled elitist, but ex-football executive Mauricio Macri gathered allies from diverse political forces to persuade Argentines to vote him in as their new president Sunday.

With a dashing smile under his piercing blue eyes, the graying 56-year-old channeled discontent among Argentines fed up with the hands-on economic policy of outgoing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

In the runoff vote, Macri was the favorite candidate of big businesses and foreign investors alienated by Kirchner's abrasive approach and protectionist policies.

He has proposed easing restrictions on imports and dollar transactions and liberalizing the economy after 12 years of rule by the Peronist movement that has dominated Argentine politics for decades.

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