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Argentine Senate Overrides Milei’s Vetos, Enacts Pediatric Emergency and University Funding Laws

Two‑thirds overrides shift the confrontation to implementation.

Overview

  • The upper chamber voted 59–7–3 on the pediatric emergency bill focused on Hospital Garrahan and 58–7–4 on university funding, converting both measures into law and requiring promulgation.
  • With a prior decree (681/2025) used to promulgate and then suspend the Disability law, senators approved a resolution rejecting that move and pressed Chief of Cabinet Guillermo Francos to reassign funds to execute the new statutes.
  • Opposition blocs prepared further pressure tools, including an interpellation path for Francos over budget compliance tied to the newly reinstated laws, according to congressional floor strategy reported during the session.
  • A weekly pensioners’ rally outside Congress ended in a heavy police operation that observers labeled disproportionate, with ten injured and one detainee later released.
  • In parallel regional court actions, a Peruvian judge held periodic reviews of preventive detention for Andrés Hurtado and Elizabeth Peralta, and another court ordered a lifetime pension for Pedro Castillo as Congress announced an appeal.