After the government managed to move forward with the Budget 2026 During this first phase of extraordinary events in December, they are preparing at Casa Rosada Roadmap for Februarywhich could contain some points Chapter XI which the Chamber of Deputies rejected in the respective vote.
“In February we will present everything again“, he assured The Chronicler a senior official who works side by side in parliamentary negotiations after making the decision to do so Do not rewrite the chapter in the Senate so that it is approved without changes.
These are the aspects of the budget that were rejected in a chain effect along with the repeal of the laws of Disability emergency And University funding. The President Javier Milei assumed that he would resign the posts in such a way that the budget balance would be maintained, which was sanctioned with a forecast by the 1.5% surplus.
As El Cronista expected, the issue of disability and universities will play a central role separate strategy reallocate budget items, amend existing laws to reduce their fiscal costs, and consequently eliminate the risk of proceedings against the Minister of Health moving forward, Mario Lugonesin court.
The options on the table range from a decree that changes the redistribution of expenditure or a The invoice The Cutting current items that the government does not want to comply with. “We must put common sense first,” they say from Balcarce 50. “The logical thing is that it is done by law,” they warned from the parliamentary ruling party, which often clashes with the bold ideas of the Casa Rosada.
However, the strategy at this point is is not defined: The parliamentary debate has entailed high political costs for the actors and they are exposed to the risk that any initiative will be rejected again.
For example, one of the topics covered in the rejected chapter was this Tariff update the system of basic comprehensive care services for people with disabilities. The article stipulated that the Ministry of Health and ANDIS would do this quarterly, with the guarantee that they would otherwise be updated by then CPI automatically.
But while the ruling party is outlining this strategy, some have already decided to insist on the approval of the other articles left out of the same chapter. Including the limitation of Cold zone regime for Abolish subsidies on natural gas in provinces that do not experience high temperatures – such as Córdoba, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires – which is of particular interest in the provinces of Patagonia.
There were also new rules for Electrical System Compensations and Debts and reallocations affecting, among other things, mining. Chapter 11 also contained an article that they added at the last minute with a promise to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling on the debt of Participation of the city of Buenos Airesbut there are no guarantees from the government to insist on it.
The executive’s idea is to reflect these points in a separate law, or even another possibility for them to fall is be incorporated into another bill.
The second call for extraordinary tenders is planned for Monday, February 3rd to 27th. The agenda will focus primarily on law Work modernization and the Glacier lawwhich already have an opinion from the committee in the Senate. Furthermore, this medium could know that Some governors are pushing for the inclusion of the justice documentsbut from Casa Rosada they insist on rejection until March.
Another important theme that is included is the new criminal code that, in its latest novelty will begin to be debated in the House of Representatives instead of the Senatealthough Senator and former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich wanted to promote the debut of criminal justice reform with more than 900 articles. The final text has not yet been published.
At the same time, they are researching in the Casa Rosada to finally present one Tax reform. Yes OK There is a tax chapter in the work project The Ministry of Economy is working on a second, more comprehensive part, which was part of the negotiations they held with governors during the May Council.
One project that was still in the pipeline and is expected to be revived in February is that of National commitment to fiscal and monetary stabilitywhich, although it had made a statement in the House of Commons, failed to reach a quorum for discussion in the chamber and failed after the body approved the budget and the “fiscal innocence”.
This is the project that introduced a tax rule for the surplus and banned the question of money without support with criminal sanctions. The President of Parliament, Martin Menem, intends to reword some points of the opinion in order to obtain agreement and approve it once and for all.
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