Overview

• President Milei’s August 1 decree enshrined a phased salary increase for state employees—1.3% monthly from June through August, 1.2% in September and 1.1% in October–November—alongside bonuses of 25,000 pesos for June–August and 20,000 pesos thereafter, and raised first-year resident pay at Hospital Garrahan to 1,068,914 pesos from November 1.
• On August 2 he signed total vetos to the 7.2% pension hike, an increased bonus for retirees, a two-year extension of the pension moratorium and the disability emergency law, with publication in the Official Gazette scheduled for Monday.
• Opposition deputies have called a special session for August 6 in the Chamber of Deputies to debate pediatric health and university funding, address provincial finance measures and attempt to override the presidential vetos, which requires a two-thirds majority.
• The executive branch is negotiating with provincial governors and allied deputies to secure at least one-third of votes in the Chamber of Deputies needed to uphold the vetoes and block an override.
• The struggle underscores deepening executive-legislative tensions over Milei’s IMF-aligned fiscal-discipline agenda and mounting union protests over public-sector pay and social-welfare cuts in an election-year context.