The national government will present the project to amend the mental health law currently in force in the country during the next regular session of the National Congress, which begins on March 1.
That’s how he knew it THE NATION from sources in the executive branch who explained that this is a decision that is in the works and includes claims from patient families as well as professionals and security forces.
The project would have the spirit that was already considered in the section on the subject that included the Basic Law and that was ultimately omitted in the final version of the government’s first law, adopted in Parliament. This would involve the creation of specialized centers and involuntary hospitalizations, one of the main complaints of family members, professionals and security officials, according to sources consulted by this newspaper.
“We will return to what should be”Executive sources summarized. “We need to go back and do something more similar to the previous law”they have completed.
This would be the Libertarian government’s second attempt to introduce changes to the current mental health law, which dates back to 2010.
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The opposition and the provinces have already turned on the alarm lights. The Labor Modernization Project that the Executive Branch has submitted to the Senate includes a series of tax cuts that, according to its estimates, will have a fiscal cost of 0.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) –about $5.5 billion per year– and since these are co-participation taxes, they are resources that the provinces will no longer receive if the initiative so proposed becomes law.
The fiscal impact of 0.8% of GDP that this revenue decline will entail implies nothing less than half of the budget surplus planned in the 2026 budget project (1.5% of GDP) warns the opposition.
To make matters worse, contrary to what the government proclaims – and even imposes as a rule for all legislation debated in Congress – No paragraph of their project explains from which sources of funding these tax costs will be financed..
The opposition clearly accuses her of this: While she is accused of passing two laws – that of University and Emergency Disability Funding- Given its fiscal burden without adequate funding – it even tried to eliminate it in the 2026 budget for this reason – the government seems to have a free hand to raise or lower taxes without making any declarations or taking into account that not only the nation, but also the finances of the provinces are supported by federal revenues.
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Without much room for error, The ruling party will seek a sanction in the Senatein an atypical session scheduled for the day after Christmas, the 2026 budget draft, a tool that until now has been the government of Javier Milei I had despised it, but on this occasion must be shown to the markets and above all with negotiating International Monetary Fund Debt payments due next month.
The meeting is scheduled for this Friday at 12 p.m The “Tax Innocence” bill is also on the agenda.which loosens the crime of tax evasion and makes it easier to launder dollars hidden outside the financial system. For this reason, it is also called the “dollars under the mattress” project.
Aside from that, Rio Negro libertarian Enzo Fullone is sworn in as president, Replacement of Lorena Villaverde, that she had to resign as a senator because her criminal record provoked disapproval in the upper house, one of which involved a drug trafficking case in the United States.
A priori, the new head of the ruling bloc in the Senate, Patricia Bullrich (federal capital) He is confident that he will have the votes to approve the budget draft in principle.
The ruling party will even have the support of Peronist senators from the Federal Conviction bloc, that integrates the Interblock Popular under the chairmanship of the Kirchnerist José Mayans (Formosa).
If, as everything suggests, this happens, It will be the first time that Peronism will vote divided in the Senate, a new sign of Cristina Kirchner’s dizzying loss of power in Congress.
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