Two Peronist Candidates Go Head-to-Head in Argentine Runoff

Former President Carlos Menem may be the political underdog in Argentina's May 18 presidential elections, although he won the first-round election with 24.6 percent of the vote. His biggest problem is that 70 percent of Argentine voters dislike him intensely, equating his previous governments with widespread corruption and what is commonly perceived as the destruction of the country's economy with free-market policies that did not help most Argentines.