Overview
- Pro-government figures aligned with Governor Axel Kicillof renewed calls to scrap the 2016 two-consecutive-term limit for mayors and defend a bill introduced by Ayelén Durán in 2025 that has not yet been debated in the provincial Senate.
- Key opposition leaders publicly rejected the change on Tuesday, with Interior Minister Diego Santilli and La Libertad Avanza provincial head Sebastián Pareja saying they will not back indefinite re-elections and the PRO bonaerense issuing a formal communiqué of refusal.
- Peronist ranks are split: Kicillof’s sector presses for repeal, the Frente Renovador that backed the 2016 law resists changes, and the cristinista wing wants the issue folded into broader PJ negotiations over courts, the budget and candidate lists.
- Supporters argue the limit is 'proscriptive' and that voters should decide who stays in office while critics say keeping Ley 15.315 preserves political renewal and prevents local incumbency entrenchment.
- If the law is not changed, 82 municipal chiefs across parties will be barred from running in 2027 and backers may try to use the repeal as leverage in late-year bargaining, though legislative timing and fractured majorities make a December vote uncertain.