The government will make official the call for extraordinary sessions of the National Congress this midnight, which will begin this Wednesday and last until the end of the year. The decree calling for it was signed by President Javier Milei on Friday, but will be published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday. On the agenda are: Labor reformthat of criminal codethe appropriateness of the Glacier law and the Budget 2026.
The Casa Rosada has convened this Tuesday at 1.30 p.m. the members of the May Council, who in the last hours have received the drafts of the final report on the discussions of the meetings during the year. The drafts also include the latest version of the labor reform, which was circulated last Friday and whose content has already met with resistance from the unions.
In addition, the presentation format of the May Council’s final report is currently being determined.
The Mayo Council is chaired by the Chief of Staff. Manuel Adorniand composed with multi-sectoral representation, but in keeping with the Casa Rosada. For the executive there will be the Minister for Deregulation and Transformation of the State, Federico Fallenegger; for the governors he is a representative Alfredo Cornejofrom Mendoza; from the Senate, Carolina Losada (UCR); by the Chamber of Deputies, Cristian Ritondo (professional); by the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), its owner, Martin Rappallini, and by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Gerardo Martínez.
It is expected that everyone will be present this Tuesday, also to express their opinion on one or more of the points, as is likely to be the case with Martínez, who has already predicted that the unions do not agree with the reform and that there is “no consensus” for it.
The most important points of the draft that he could know include THE NATION, The key points that emerge are the flexibility of “working conditions and modalities”; the possibility of agreeing to part-time contracts; Agree on salaries in pesos or other foreign currencies, but also in exchange for food and spices, and set them based on productivity. In addition, the initiative includes the Creation of one Hour bank and the implementation of a Severance pay fund instead of compensation, but only in cases mutually agreed between the parties.
The government would also make changes limit the “discretion” of judges that intervene in conflicts between employees and employers. It provides for the creation of a single calculation updated using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) with an additional interest rate of 3% per annum and prohibits the accrual of interest on the interest, as has been the case in some Labor Court rulings. In addition, the initiative envisages changes in the calculation of compensation, as it commits to the exclusion of items such as bonuses, vacation and bonuses.
For her part, Milei will not be responsible for the presentation or the start of the extraordinary sessions, as she is traveling to Oslo where she will attend the awards ceremony for the Venezuelan leader. Maria Corina Machado, Who will receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
In the Norwegian capital he will also have a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of that country, Jonas Gahr Store. Both events will take place on Wednesday and the president will be back in the country on Thursday.
For the period of extraordinary sessions starting between this Wednesday and December 31, the government has placed on the agenda: the 2026 budget, the “Tax Innocence Law”, the Tax and Monetary Obligation Law, “Labor Modernization”, the Penal Code Reform and the Glaciers Law.
The government’s priority is to sanction the 2026 budget law to give a first sign of governability to the markets, international credit organizations and the United States, which provided financial support to Milei’s management before the elections.
The success of the project delivery will depend on the agreements with the governors with whom the national executive has been meeting since the beginning of November. Adorni and the Interior Minister were selected for this exchange, Diego Santilli.
budget
The budget, which focuses on fiscal balancing, calls for GDP growth of 5%, annual inflation of 10.1% and an exchange rate of $1,423 per dollar.
The ruling party hopes to impose a half-sanction on him on Wednesday the 17th and although it does not rule out concessions, it makes it clear that they will always leave the budget surplus unchanged and that any deviation will be rejected by the President, as has already been the case on several occasions.
Tax liability
The project of Tax innocencewith the aim of changing the general regime and strengthening the simplified income tax rules. According to LA NACION, this is what the initiative aims to do Increasing the tax evasion limit and to shorten the tax limitation period.
The Fiscal and Monetary Obligations Act aims to “protect” or “institutionalize” fiscal balance by requiring balanced or surplus budgets and prohibiting deficits and the issuance of money to finance them. And imposing criminal sanctions on officials who don’t follow those rules and limiting congressional spending.
glacier
The Glacier law It is a demand that the provinces of Cuyo and del Norte have been demanding for some time in order to encourage mining investments in their territories. The provinces of Catamarca, San Juan, Mendoza, Salta and Jujuy are represented in Congress They have their own blocs that contribute votesespecially in the Senate.
The reform proposes to give each province the definition of its periglacial zone. “The current regulations affect investment opportunities in several sectors: mining, tourism, fruit and vegetable production. We want each province to delimit its periglacial zone according to the laws of its respective legislature, and not a bureaucrat from Buenos Aires,” says Casa Rosada.
criminal code
The reform of the criminal code, one of the government’s priorities, pursues three clearly defined general objectives: a Tightening of penaltiesThe Expansion of criminal behavior and the Review of the prescription regime, releases and tightened numbers. It is estimated that these last points would make the debate most difficult.
The statute of limitations for corruption offenses has not yet been taken into account, which originally turned out to be a point to be taken into account.
About The Author
