Overview

• Deputies approved an emplazamiento for the Constitutional Affairs and Petitions, Powers and Rules committees to take up the Senate‑passed bill on September 23 and issue a dictamen by September 30.
• The reform would allow a single chamber of Congress to overturn a DNU and would require ratification within 90 days or the decree would lose validity, with its legal effects preserved.
• Opposition blocs—Unión por la Patria, Encuentro Federal, Democracia para Siempre and the Coalición Cívica—are preparing a special session for October 1 or October 8.
• The push follows the Senate’s September 4 approval of the measure, positioning the lower house as the next battleground over limits to emergency executive powers.
• President Javier Milei, governing in a minority, has used DNUs frequently, with 64 signed to date including a mega decree that modified about 300 laws.