Overview

• A presidential decree published Aug. 8 created a commission staffed solely by executive officials, prompting doubts about an open reform process.
• Ricardo Monreal has reiterated that Congress—not the presidential commission—will decide the final terms of any electoral reform.
• Analysts say the executive’s agenda is likely to target party funding cuts, fewer plurinominal seats and a reorganization of the National Electoral Institute.
• Argentina’s Santa Fe Convención Reformadora voted 56-7 to amend its internal rules so commissions can present and vote on reports by theme rather than as a single package.
• The convention’s Executive and Legislative Powers Commission issued a draft enabling one re-election for Governor Maximiliano Pullaro by treating his current term as a first under a transitional clause.