Overview

• Senators convene Thursday at 11 to decide on overturning President Javier Milei’s veto of the disability emergency law and to take up a bill that tightens rules on Decrees of Necessity and Urgency.
• A broad opposition front spanning Peronists, UCR, PRO and provincial blocs signals strong votes for both initiatives after the lower house rejected the veto on August 20.
• The disability measure restores funding and timely payments to service providers, updates benefits and pension processes for people with disabilities, and carries an estimated fiscal cost of 0.22%–0.42% of GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
• The DNU reform sets a 90-day deadline for Congress to ratify decrees, allows rejection by either chamber to void them, and seeks to bar multi-issue ‘megadecrees’ by requiring a defined technical scope.
• Government sources indicate a likely judicial strategy or partial nonexecution if the veto is overturned, while opposition leaders offer legal assistance to claimants and new local court filings have begun, including a case in Salta.