Overview
- Interior Minister Diego Santilli, Lower House chief Martín Menem and Patricia Bullrich are leading talks with governors and allied legislators to assemble votes for the ruling bloc.
- The Senate scheduled the swearing-in of new members for November 28, where La Libertad Avanza will hold 21 seats against 28 for the Peronist bloc, making provincial and UCR votes pivotal.
- Patricia Bullrich will lead the libertarian bloc in the upper chamber and met Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who emphasized her institutional role in ensuring orderly Senate proceedings.
- Deputies are due to be sworn in on December 4 and seated by December 10, with the government expected to call extraordinary sessions focused on the 2026 Budget, a tax amnesty and a labor reform, and a second January call to take up tax and penal code changes.
- Unión por la Patria’s strength in the Lower House is eroding as Tucumán’s Javier Noguera moves to the Independencia bloc aligned with Governor Osvaldo Jaldo, putting UxP near 96 seats and heightening the leverage of provincial blocs.