The Chief of Staff, Manuel Adornipresented the final report of the Mayo Council, the advisory body convened by the President Javier MileI brought together representatives from business, unions, the legislature and from 18 provinces. The document, which will form the basis of the 2026 legislative calendar and part of the extraordinary sessions, translates eight of the ten points of the May Pact.
Below this, three chapters focus on key definitions: the Inviolability of private propertyThe Soil regulation and the Education reform.
New expropriation law: compensation at market value and faster evictions
Within the axis dedicated to private property, the Council proposes the following: New version of the expropriation law. The document specifies that compensation must be calculated at market value before the announcementupdated by Consumer Price Index and determined by independent assessors.
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The proposal also includes a change to eviction procedures:
– Immediate handover of the property in cases of precarious possession, intrusion or usurpation,
-Elimination of administrative delays which, in the government’s view, compromise legal certainty.
In parallel, the Council proposes Change ownership laws in popular neighborhoodsa sensitive point within urbanization policy. The report recommends lift the ban on the sale of land to legal entitiesone by law 27,453 (known as Renabap law) to prevent real estate speculation and ensure that the awarded land remains in the hands of the local families. The government points out that this restriction “stiffs” the market and makes it difficult to complete the regulatory processes, which is why it proposes to allow sales to cooperatives, civic associations or companies involved in infrastructure or urban development projects.
For reform advocates, the measure would expand financing alternatives and allow for faster titling; For critics, it opens the door to greater real estate market pressure on vulnerable areas. The project resulting from this recommendation will define the specific scope of this opening and the state oversight mechanisms.
Rural areas and fire protection: opening up to investments and abolishing the ban period
The report also encourages substantive changes in the rural country. End of restrictions on the acquisition of land by foreigners. The council suggests exempt the acquisition of land by foreign private individualswhich will lift the current restrictions. For the government, these restrictions are “an attack on productive investment” and must be removed to stimulate the rural market.
According to the government’s reading, the abolition of the cap would enable a “rural market revitalization”, expanding competition and facilitating ventures related to large-scale production, infrastructure and renewable energy. The proposal does not yet specify whether monitoring mechanisms will be retained or which authority will be responsible for the survey work.
The eventual repeal of the land law will be part of the legislative package that the executive branch will send to Congress, which will establish the criteria for preserving the territory, concentration limits, etc the role of the state in controlling foreign investment in strategic areas.
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Review of the fire protection law
Another key point is the removal of the preventive ban change productive land use over a period of 30 to 60 years after a fire, a law promoted at the time by Maximo Kirchner. The ruling party claims that this deadline “does not stimulate economic activity” and makes it difficult to restore the affected areas.
The land and natural resources package is not limited to opening up the rural market but also includes a dedicated chapter on this Use of strategic resourcesespecially in a scenario of expanding mining and global demand for critical minerals. The May Council proposes to work towards a scheme “free exploitation”which in practice involves reviewing regional and national regulations that, according to the document, create distortions between jurisdictions and make projects more expensive.
One of the points highlighted is necessity Integrate labor and supplier markets across the countryAvoiding the imposition of Mandatory local hiring caps or percentages. These requirements, contained in provincial regulations and industry agreements, establish minimum limits for labor or resources originating from the province in which the activity is carried out. For the government and part of the Council, these requirements “fragment” the factor market and limit the competitiveness of projects related to lithium, copper and other profits with high initial investments.
The report argues that regulatory harmonization would make this possible Reduce costsaccelerate investments and facilitate the installation of specialized suppliers operating at national level. However, the document avoids comment on the environmental debates surrounding mining and refers these discussions to the parallel reforms envisaged in mining laws. Glaciers, forests and aquaculturealso mentioned in the chapter on natural resources.
Education: school autonomy, flexible modalities and national assessments
Mayo Council’s education chapter is one of the largest; suggests a institutional redesign which combines greater decentralization, “openness to new modalities” and a more robust evaluation system. The general premise is that the national state sets a floor for essential content, while provinces and schools gain leeway in defining their form of teaching and organization.
-Provincial and school autonomy
The nation state will establish itself common minimum contentbut each province – and each school within it – will be able to develop its own curriculum within the framework of national minimum content. It also involves a more active role for families in monitoring the educational project.
-Advanced modalities
The text today enables extraordinary modalities: Distance learning, Hybrid modelsAnd Community schools. Everyone has to operate under Duty of supervisionwith common standards to ensure equivalence in terms of content, workload and course.
-National rating system
It is suggested to reinstall the evaluations Census at the end of secondary schoolfocused on minimum content, supplemented by sampling devices throughout the year to measure learning progress and progress. The results will be publicwhile preserving the identity of students and teachers, with the aim of offering comparable information between provinces and schools.
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The Executive Branch will refer part of these initiatives to Congress during special sessions. The rest remains for the 2026 legislative period. Adorni himself emphasized that the council report – together with the documents submitted by each council member – would be published in full Argentina.gob.areven the proposals that were not accepted.
For the Libertarian government, these projects form the core of its institutional and economic program for the two-year term. They open a new phase of debate for Parliament Private property, access to land and education modelthree issues that have caused federal and political tensions in Argentina in the past.
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