With the consent of budget and the Tax Innocence Act The ruling party came back at the last minute a year marked by defeats Parliamentarians. It suffered during ordinary time Rejection of the two members nominated for the Supreme Court And only 11 laws were passedalmost all promoted by the opposition. Javier Milei vetoed 7but Congress insisted on three. In 2026, strengthened by replacing benches, The government will first try to consolidate reforms in the labor, tax and criminal codes.
Only 11 bills were passed between March and November, according to the Legislative Directory Foundation survey. Last year there were 44. With the exception of three international agreements, all other projects received the green light They were driven by the opposition.
In the end, the executive vetoed seven: a pension increase project, another moratorium, the state of emergency for Bahía Blanca, the initiative promoted by the governors for the automatic distribution of the National Treasury Contributions (ATN), the Nicolas Law, the Disability emergency, university funding and Garrahan law.
Congress managed to pass the latter three initiatives – by more than two-thirds – although the controversy over disability and funding continues. The executive branch regulated, but I did not enact the laws and implement them in the budget project He tried again to repeal it in Article 75, but Parliament again prevented him from doing so.
The executive’s greatest triumph came in March the approval of the DNU in accordance with the IMF in MPs. The worst defeat came in April the rejection of the specifications of Ariel Lijo and Manuel García Mansilla, the candidates chosen by Milei to complete the Supreme Court.
The opposition dominated the agenda in both chambers and forced the ruling party to open the commissions using the instrument of the locations that represented a record this year.
It is a vote attended by the entire body that sets the day and time of a Commission meeting to discuss a specific project.
In the past 23 years, subpoenas have only been issued in five legislative periods; now we count dismissals: between one and three. This year 20 commission placements were registered.
The governing party was already strengthened in extraordinary meetings, with the reorganization of the Congress – after the elections – and was able to raise its head at the end of the year.
Of the six issues proposed by the president in the first tranche of the extraordinary elections – which ended on December 30 – La Libertad Avanza managed to approve two: the 2026 budget and the fiscal innocence law.
The law on the national commitment to financial and monetary stability, on which there was an opinion but which was not voted on due to a lack of agreements, remained on hold. the Work Modernization Project; the reform of the criminal code; and the change in the glacier law.
Patricia Bullrich, the new head of the Senate, has already announced this He wants to vote on labor reform in February. But there is open conflict with allies and with the CGT. Therefore, negotiations in January will revolve around this issue, albeit informally.
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