US EditionMilei to Sign Decree Calling Special Congress Sessions
President Milei aims to pass the 2026 Budget and reforms on labour, tax, and penal codes during December special sessions, backed by his coalition holding 95 deputies.
- President Javier Milei signed a decree calling for special sessions in Congress, scheduled from December 10 to 31, to advance the 2026 Budget and reforms, with the decree published in the Official Gazette next Tuesday.
- Following the October electoral win, La Libertad Avanza leaders Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni and Interior Minister Diego Santilli opened talks with provincial governors, backed by 95 deputies in the lower house.
- The draft circulated among journalists shows the labour reform bill would alter working hours, create a severance fund, relax vacation rules, include a special regime for platform delivery workers described as 'independent workers', and prioritize Penal Code reform.
- Lawmakers will take up the fiscal 'innocence' proposal and measures to limit judicial 'discretion' from December 10, with Senator Patricia Bullrich expected to lead Senate debates.
- Officials say they may extend special sessions into February to allow more debate, while the Executive proposes raising fraud thresholds, shortening limitation periods, and amending the Glacier Protection Law.
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The national government opened a new political chapter by confirming the call for extraordinary sessions for December.During that period, Casa Rosada will seek to advance with a package of initiatives considered central to the government, ranging from Budget 2026 to labor, tax and penal reforms.The decision puts the negotiation with governors and legislative blocs back at the center of the debate.What projects included the decree of convocation …
The negotiations with the provincial leaders are concentrated in inclusive commitments. The interlocutor who fixed the Patagonians, and the examples of National Road and Cold Zones. President Javier Milei will sign in the next few hours the decree calling for the extraordinary sessions. This will be the first test for the market regarding the capacity to build governability, with the discussion of Budget 2026 after two years of extensions from 2…
On Friday afternoon, Manuel Adorni confirmed that Javier Milei signed the decree calling for extraordinary sessions in Congress between the next 10 and 30 December. Among the issues to be discussed, the head of the Cabinet included Budget 2026, the Fiscal Innocence Law, the national commitment for stability, labor modernization, the reform of the Penal Code and the adequacy of the regime for the preservation of glaciers and the periglacial envir…
President Javier Milei will sign in the next few hours the decree calling for extraordinary sessions, a movement that will function as the first proof of his ability to articulate political agreements in view of the Budget 2026. After two years operating with the extension of the budget of 2023, the Executive faces a scenario of stalled negotiations with the governors, despite the recent incorporation of Diego Santilli to the Ministry of the Int…
In an attempt to advance its neoliberal policy and social cuts, the Argentine government announced on Friday that it will convene extraordinary sessions in Congress from December 10 to 30 in the midst of the mobilizations and social discontent that the South American country is going through. Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni confirmed that President Javier Milei will sign the decree calling Congress for extraordinary sessions to discuss the 2026 budg…
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