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Argentina’s Lower House Panels Advance Bill to Curb DNUs With Oct. 8 Vote in Sight

Committee approval positions the bill for an Oct. 8 vote following scrutiny of Milei’s prolific DNU use.

Overview

  • The joint plenary of Constitutional Affairs and Petitions, Powers and Rules issued majority support for the reform, clearing the way for floor debate as soon as next week.
  • The draft would require both chambers to ratify a DNU within 90 days or it lapses, allow a single-chamber rejection to void it, and bar issuing another DNU on the same subject in the same parliamentary year.
  • The Senate has already approved the measure, and opposition sponsors are moving quickly to leave time to confront a likely presidential veto before the Dec. 10 congressional turnover.
  • Opposition backing is not uniform: Unión por la Patria, Encuentro Federal and most of Democracia para Siempre signed the majority opinion, La Libertad Avanza filed a minority report, the Coalición Cívica proposed changes, the PRO withheld a signature, and UCR and Innovación Federal flagged objections.
  • A Universidad Austral study cited in the debate reports Milei has signed roughly 83 DNUs in about 21–22 months, intensifying calls for tighter oversight, though a veto override would still require two‑thirds in each chamber and those votes are uncertain.