Overview
- Top officials reconvened the Casa Rosada political table to center the congressional agenda on the labor “modernization” bill and to set aside other items such as the Penal Code changes.
- Internal debates persist over how far to go on concessions, with economic chiefs resisting measures that widen the fiscal cost while negotiators argue some compensation is needed to secure votes.
- Interior Minister Diego Santilli canvassed governors who pressed for offsets to losses from proposed corporate income tax cuts and raised demands on fuel‑tax sharing, stalled public works, and pension‑fund debts.
- Government allies are eyeing an estimated February 11 Senate window for the labor vote but still need additional support, with outreach led by Patricia Bullrich in the upper chamber and Martín Menem in Deputies.
- DNU 941 on intelligence was sent to Congress and faces court challenges from rights groups such as CELS, while opposition blocs plan a first‑week‑of‑February special session to try to annul it without the bicameral commission in place, saying they are within striking distance of the required votes in the lower house.