The President’s Plan Javier Milei because the extraordinary sessions of Congress begin this Tuesday with a Define key session in the Senate the roadmap that labor reform will follow and the chances that the ruling party will impose a “half-sanction” on him before the end of the year while he tries to sign the law in the Chamber of Deputies Opinion, so that the 2026 budget Voting will take place between tomorrow and Thursday at the venue.
Milei has set the deadline for this section of the extraordinary examinations as Tuesday, December 30th. Activity will resume at the end of January, but libertarians still want it to speed up the processing of the legislative package as much as possible that the government wants to produce, emphasizing the budget and labor reform over the fiscal innocence projects (or “cushion dollars”) or the project that aims as state policy to protect the fiscal balance.
In the La Libertad Avanza parliamentary bloc they trust it Budget 2026 It was approved on Wednesday without any major problems. The operation began on Monday with the rapid establishment of the Budget and Finance Commission with Bertie Benegas Lynch (LLA) as president. The body will meet This Tuesday starts at noon and the ruling party hopes to win the majority opinion.
There are further doubts in the Senate, where an important meeting with all the bloc leaders will also take place this Tuesday at 11:00 a.m., chaired by Vice President Victoria Villarruel, to determine the new integration of the Labor and Social Security Commission and the schedule for dealing with the labor reform project.which Patricia Bullrich wants to approve in “Express” mode.
Congress presents Javier Milei’s agenda: key session in the Senate on labor reform
Bullrich not only takes the lead in this fight as head of the senatorial bloc, but also will chair the working commissionas confirmed in the LLA. But also requires a “friendly” majority of 9 of the 17 senators that make up the body to try to enforce a decision in favor of labor reform within the set deadlines.
This will be the central theme of this Tuesday’s meeting, which will also be attended José Mayans and Juliana di Tullio References of the blocs that shape the Peronist/Kirchnerist bank of the Unión por la Patria. If there is agreement on how many seats correspond to each room, the debate on electoral law reform begins the next day.
As an interbloc, the Unión por la Patria is the first minority in the district and could therefore claim more places on the commission, but if you look block by block, the LLA prevails, which will – at least – also have the support of the UCR and the PRO to win a fight if it comes to it. Parliamentary sources announced this on Monday afternoon iProfessional that they saw the path for the governing party “very clearly”.
If this Tuesday’s meeting goes as libertarians hope, labor reform will be debated in the commission on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, with the idea of signing a statement that same day. This is the “ideal” schedule managed by the ruling party, as it would allow it to bring the project to the premises to vote on Monday December 29th or Tuesday December 30th. and there are even those in the ruling party who do not rule out holding a meeting on Saturday the 27th if they agree on it.
The Prospects for Labor Reform in the Senate: Does the Government Have the Votes to Accelerate It?
The dates also depend on the Senate rules and the number. At least seven days must elapse between the signing of the opinion in committee and its vote in the plenary session of the Chamber. To speed things up, a two-thirds majority in the chamber is required to allow the debate “on tables” and the LLA excludes the possibility that Kirchnerism will not make its votes available for this.
For this reason, Bullrich points out that the The labor reform will be voted on in the same session in which the 2026 budget and tax projects that the Chamber of Deputies will present will be discussed – if approved as expected – will be signed into law between December 27th and 30th. Times are tight and the agenda is extensive, which raises doubts about the possibility of an “explicit” semi-sanction even among the allies of the LLA, which also sticks to this plan.
This trust is partly due to the fact that The ruling party assumes that the majority of 37 votes is almost reached in order to achieve a quorum and ensure approval of the work project. LLA has 21 senators in its new interbloc and hopes to add the 10 from the UCR, the 4 from the PRO and the two missionaries who answer to the provincial chief Carlos Rovira.
So The count comes to 36. But the resignation of Lorena Villaverde from Rio Negro also left the Senate currently with 71 MPs. Substitute Enzo Fullone is supposed to take over in the first session, but he is there With the current number, the governing party would already have the necessary half plus one to approve the labor reform. A detail that some are already considering.
The other side of the Senate: MPs are preparing to approve the 2026 budget
The main obstacle that the ruling party is currently facing is precisely linked to the haste it is showing to approve such a comprehensive project, which envisages changes before the end of the year in compensation, holidays, salaries, collective agreements and taxes – in addition to the items “offensive” to the unions and therefore conflict-prone.
There are reservations among UCR senators and those who answer to governors. Several want one more detailed debate in the Commission to be set in February. Also Peronism, that plays together with the CGT against the project that Milei presented and, contrary to LLA’s wishes, wants a round of consultations with almost a hundred specialists.
The idea of discussing a labor reform of this magnitude in the same session as the 2026 budget and the “Fiscal Innocence” project, which the ruling party in the Chamber of Deputies already considers almost approved, is not very attractive for senators from the other blocs.
With the After convening the Budget and Finance Commission this Tuesday at 12 p.m., the LLA hopes to win the report, so much so that it has already called a special meeting for Wednesday, December 17, at 2 p.m. to approve the so-called “law of laws”.
On the agenda of this session are the budget, the “Fiscal Innocence” project, which raises the tax evasion thresholds to encourage the use of the dollars that Argentinians have “under the mattress” without fear of fines or legal problems, and the “Fiscal and Monetary Stability” initiative, which prohibits the sanctioning of laws (including national budgets) that entail deficits and the issuance of the BCRA.
Congress in full swing: budget, labor reform and the Milei goal
The circulation of the call for this meeting on Monday evening, before the meeting of the commissions that have to give opinions on these projects, confirms this Confidence that exists in the government regarding the agenda of the Chamber of Deputies. A lot of it has to do with the fact that the governors want there to finally be a budget law that serves as a reference.
During these two years, Milei ruled without a budget and managed the funds distributed to the provinces as he saw fit. The ruling party believes that the negotiations that Diego Santilli has had with the governors on the resources they require or alternative ways to support the provincial coffers have secured them the necessary majority to advance in Congress.
The Casa Rosada, as well as many of the lawmakers who today begin a week of parliamentary hectic, believe that the agreement on the 2026 budget will also prove useful “Major key” to getting governors’ support Radical, hard-line Peronists and provincial parties participated in the reform package, including labor reforms.
In this context, the troupe of Javier Milei trying to clear the way for an advance in record time Labor reform in it senate while they are in the Chamber of Deputies dealing with the Budget 2026hoping that the agreements reached so far will be enough for everything and will allow the government to end the year with a major political victory.
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