Overview
- Manuel Adorni was sworn in as chief of cabinet and will add a new cabinet meeting format he can lead to strengthen interministerial coordination when the president is not present.
- Javier Milei assembled roughly 100 libertarian and PRO legislators at the Casa Rosada and confirmed special congressional sessions from December 10 to 31 to take up the 2026 Budget and three flagship reforms.
- Officials say the reform texts are still being finalized, with formal submissions targeted for around November 15 and the penal overhaul described as the only draft completed so far.
- The government will hold off negotiations over Supreme Court and federal-court vacancies until March, does not plan to include them in the special sessions, and signals openness to discussing a Court expansion with the Senate’s kirchnerismo.
- Diego Santilli has been named interior minister and is expected to be sworn in next week, joining a revamped political table as Martín Menem is reaffirmed to lead the lower house and Patricia Bullrich prepares to drive the penal reform in the Senate.