Overview
- Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni reconvened the president’s political table for January 16, bringing together Martín Menem, Patricia Bullrich, Interior Minister Diego Santilli, Eduardo “Lule” Menem and Ignacio Devitt, with possible participation by Karina Milei and Luis Caputo.
- Patricia Bullrich, after meetings in Mar del Plata, said the government will accept changes to the bill and is ready to talk with the CGT, stressing that any revisions must preserve the reform’s goal of changing the current system.
- A Senate technical team led by adviser Josefina Tajes will begin work January 16, with a committee debate planned around January 26 and a target of taking the bill to the Senate floor in early February.
- La Libertad Avanza counts roughly 21 senators and needs 16–17 more for quorum, focusing talks on UCR members and provincial blocs as disputes persist over the FAL’s 3% payroll financing swap with ANSeS and the tax chapter’s hit to provincial coparticipation.
- Interior Minister Diego Santilli will court governors this week, meeting Leandro Zdero in Chaco on January 12, Sergio Ziliotto on January 13, returning to Chubut January 14, and Alfredo Cornejo in Mendoza on January 15, while the CGT campaigns in provinces and seeks removal of article 161 on union health fund contributions.