Overview
- The San Luis Chamber of Deputies approved the declaration of necessity on Thursday, voting 30–13 to make the reform law effective after prior Senate approval.
- The law mandates an election of 52 convencionales who will form a Constituent Convention empowered to revise 23 existing articles, add 23 articles and create four new chapters of the provincial constitution.
- A central provision would bar governors from serving more than two consecutive or alternating terms while counting 2023–2027 as a first term, and the text includes a transitory clause that extends some legislators’ mandates through 2031 to synchronize renewals.
- The project proposes sweeping judicial changes that separate the Ministerio Público from the Judiciary with dual leadership (Defensoría General and Procuración General), create a Council of the Ministerio Público and a distinct Jury of Destitution, reform the Consejo de la Magistratura, raise professional experience requirements and set a 75‑year age limit for judges and prosecutors.
- Opposition leaders José Luis Riccardo and Delfor Sergnese publicly denounced the process as lacking legitimacy and broad debate, highlighted an estimated cost of about 2,765 million pesos and signaled political mobilization and possible legal challenges as the next step moves to electing convencionales and convening the convention.