The Senate approved the 2026 budget this Fridaywith 46 yes votes, 25 no votes and one abstention. This happened in a special session dedicated to this project, which is crucial for the government of Javier Milei.
The budget arrived with half the approval of MPs and needed half plus one of the votes to be supported in the upper house. Approval of all chapters was then required to become law. A result that the ruling party achieved a few minutes later.
The Advances in freedom was counting on him PRO support and other allied blocs. KirchnerismHowever, she rejected the sanctioning of the 2026 budget.
In the House of Representatives, the opposition managed to lower the questionable Chapter 11, which provided for this Repeal of university education funding laws and the Disability emergency.
In the Senate, radicalism has scrutinized Article 30, which deletes important passages from the laws on education financing, national education, the national system for science, technology and innovation, and professional technical education. But only three UCR senators changed the direction of their vote.
However, the governing party also reached agreement on this point with 42 yes votes, 28 no votes and two abstentions.
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