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Salta Advances Immunity Rollback as Buenos Aires Pushes 2026 Budget and Court Dealmaking Intensifies

Compressed timelines plus new vote counts are forcing cross‑party bargaining to lock in fiscal plans, labor changes, judicial nominations.

Overview

  • Salta’s Legislature granted parliamentary status to a bill to partially reform the provincial constitution by removing arrest and prosecution immunities for legislators and top executive officials while preserving immunity of opinion.
  • The proposal limits a Constituent Convention to modifying articles 99 and 143, with directly elected delegates working ad honorem for 30 days using the Legislature’s existing structure and no extra spending.
  • Buenos Aires Province’s Chamber of Deputies took up the 2026 Budget, tax package and a debt request of about US$1.99 billion, with committees set to begin debate on November 18 and a late‑November vote targeted; the debt needs two‑thirds of those present.
  • Patricia Bullrich told La Libertad Avanza senators the government’s labor reform debate will start in December, with a push for a Chamber of Deputies vote around December 11–12 and subsequent Senate work after the budget’s first sanction.
  • Reporting indicates Karina Milei is engaging in talks over two Supreme Court vacancies and the Procuración General with peronist interlocutors, as provincial legislatures show strain, including a chaotic session and opposition walkout in Córdoba and a no‑quorum delay in Santa Fe ahead of a November 27 assembly on judicial pliegos.