This week will be key congresswith the ruling party intending to achieve half the sanction of the Budget law 2026 in the Chamber of Deputies in record time. The process begins this Monday afternoon with the first meeting of the Budget and Finance Commission since the legislature was replaced. The plan is to make a decision this Tuesday and discuss the project on campus this Wednesday or Thursday at the latest.
The deputy Alberto “Bertie” Benegas Lynchwho has chaired the commission since the resignation of José Luis Espert last October, called a constituent meeting for 5 p.m. The presidency is expected to remain in his hands as representative of La Libertad Avanza 20 MPs in this commission out of a total of 49.
The distribution of benches causes controversy in the blocks
At the beginning of budget processing, the names selected by the individual blocks for integrating the commission should already be defined. The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martin Menemadopted the proportional distribution system D’Hont to decide how many locations correspond to each room.
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In the preparation session Advances in freedom confirmed its status as new first minority. At this point, the ruling party debuts with a bloc of 95 MPs Union for the Homelandreduced his force to 93 members. In this way, the ruling party in another Congress retains most of the allocation in the commissions strongly polarized.
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In the Ministry of Budget and Finance there will be 20 seats for the libertarian MPs and 18 for the Peronists. The other forces only share 11 placeswhich will be the key to tipping the balance to one side or the other.
The United Provinces questioned the distribution criteria in the decisive commission
The United Provinces Interbloc led by Santa Fe Gisela Scagliaexpressed their dissatisfaction with the distribution of seats because they believed they had been harmed. They were given three places on the budget committee and they claim that they belong there four. In the preparatory session, Scaglia claimed the status of “Third minority“, adding 22 deputies, but from the PRO they showed a form that gives them the same amount.
The distribution criterion met with uneven acceptance. The interblock of PRO, UCR and MID received four places. The President of the House of Representatives, Martin Menemhas found a controversial solution to the dilemma. The former governor of Cordoba Juan Schiaretti He could not yet be sworn in as the new representative of the United Provincesfor health reasons as he recently underwent heart surgery. Menem then considered that Schiaretti was not yet technically a member of the bloc and granted third minority status to the Interbloc that forms the PRO.
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So did La Libertad Avanza and the forces best suited to act as allies – such as the PRO-UCR-MID Interblock high chances to obtain the opinion on the 2026 budget law this Tuesday. The ruling party’s plan is to transfer the discussion to this event Wednesday, 17and achieve half the sanction in a marathon session or on Thursday at the latest. This would make it possible to submit the project to the Senate during the week and obtain its approval Christmas.
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