Overview
- Economy Minister Luis Caputo entered the government’s political table and is being positioned as the final arbiter on funding and the budget’s wording to preserve fiscal targets.
- Interior Minister Diego Santilli and Chief of Cabinet Manuel Adorni met governors Leandro Zdero and Alberto Weretilneck, with Zdero offering full support for the budget and labor reform.
- The administration is preparing a revised or entirely new 2026 budget to be presented after December 10, with treatment planned in extraordinary sessions and a renewed committee process.
- Santilli will travel Friday to meet Santiago del Estero’s Gerardo Zamora as part of a strategy to win provincial backing and entice opposition lawmakers to form autonomous blocs.
- Negotiations center on ATN transfers, public works and route repairs, and financing tools, with officials working on a YMAD transfer to Catamarca and an understanding signed with Chubut on lowering levies for conventional hydrocarbons.