Overview

• The Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved the 31‑member commission on September 17 and is set to define its members and authorities on Wednesday at 14:00.
• By rule, the body must constitute itself within seven days of sanction and will operate until December 9, 2025, when it must release a public final report.
• Families of victims say the commission must not become a decorative body and insist its effectiveness depends on who presides, pledging to attend meetings and speak in sessions.
• The commission can request reports, summon officials and receive evidence, with goals that include counting confirmed and suspected cases, mapping the outbreak timeline, probing traceability failures, and assigning responsibility to state agencies and labs HBL Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo.
• Coverage cites 96 deaths linked to contaminated fentanyl, and local reports say the accused in the megacase remain detained in Ezeiza while judicial inquiries continue.