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It's the end of an era in Argentine politics. This weekend voters will take the first step in choosing a successor to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. She or her late husband Nestor Kirchner have held office since 2003 the year after the country's financial crisis came to ahead with the biggest ever debt default. In this election the two leading candidates are Daniel Scioli of the outgoing president's Justicialist party, a group that has factions from both left and right, and Mauricio Macri of the centre right Republican Proposal. The Argentine economy has grown strongly in recent years, though lately it has slowed sharply and inflation has made an unwelcome return. So, how big an issue will the economy be now? A question that the 大象传媒's Economics Correspondent Andrew Walker put to Daniel Marx, a former senior official in the Finance Ministry and Central Bank, who now runs a firm called Quantum Finanzas in Buenos Aires.

Photo credit: A supporter at a political rally takes a 'selfie' ahead of Argentina's general election on October 25, 2015. JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images