Overview
- The presidency published Decree 865/2025 calling Congress into extraordinary session from December 10 to 30 with the 2026 Budget and major labor, penal, fiscal and environmental changes on the agenda.
- Government officials set out the package that includes a labor law overhaul, a comprehensive Penal Code reform, changes to the Glaciers law, an 'inocencia fiscal' plan and a proposed fiscal‑monetary stability commitment.
- With President Javier Milei in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for María Corina Machado, Senate provisional president Bartolomé Abdala assumed the Executive on an interim basis.
- The presidency formalized Luis Petri’s exit from Defense and appointed Army chief Carlos Presti to lead the ministry, making him the first active‑duty military officer to hold the post since the return of democracy.
- Unions mounted resistance to the labor bill, and senior officials told local media that pay will be docked for public employees who join the ATE strike as the government coordinates votes with allies in a Congress where it lacks a majority.