Overview
- The Casa Rosada’s mesa política met for the first time this year, led by Chief of Cabinet Manuel Adorni, to secure roughly a dozen additional Senate votes for the “Modernización” labor bill targeted for debate around February 10–11.
- Economy Minister Luis Caputo joined the meeting to assess options on the bill’s tax chapter, which lowers corporate Income Tax rates and would cut coparticipable revenue for provinces.
- The government is weighing compensations for provinces or separating the fiscal provisions to keep the labor package on track for extraordinary sessions.
- Internal differences persist between a pragmatic bloc seeking limited concessions to pass the bill (Santilli, Bullrich, Martín and “Lule” Menem) and harder‑line voices resistant to changes, including Federico Sturzenegger and parts of the economic team.
- Interior Minister Diego Santilli is expanding outreach to governors after meetings with Alfredo Cornejo and Marcelo Orrego, with trips planned to Salta, Neuquén and Entre Ríos, while Patricia Bullrich readies a Senate consultative and technical group to refine the dictamen as other initiatives such as the Penal Code and Glaciares bills likely slip to ordinary sessions.