Overview

• In a 49–19 vote, the plenary approved changes that expand the provincial high court to seven members with gender parity and territorial representation, set a retirement age of 75, and create a procurador general with a renewable five‑year term subject to legislative agreement.
• The reform constitutionalizes an independent Ministerio Público with functional autonomy and financial self‑rule, dividing it into a prosecutorial arm led by a fiscal general and a defense arm led by a defensor general, both appointed by the governor with legislative approval.
• A new Council for Selection of the Judiciary and Ministerio Público will run public, transparent competitions and produce binding candidate lists for the governor; it will include a judiciary or Ministerio Público representative (per vacancy), a deputy, a senator, a bar‑enrolled lawyer and a university academic.
• Judges, prosecutors and defenders accused of serious misconduct will face a Tribunal de Enjuiciamiento composed of a magistrate, a fiscal or defensor, two senators, two deputies and two lawyers in an accusatory, oral and public process, a design that drew objections from some blocs over political weight.
• Earlier in the week, the Convention granted municipal autonomy to localities over 10,000 inhabitants, prompting Rosario to begin steps toward a charter by late 2027, and it set transitory mandates requiring a new municipal organic law within one year and a revenue‑sharing law within two, with the new constitution’s oath scheduled for September 12.