Overview
- Committees led by Lionella Cattalini and Jimena Senn advanced a consolidated draft in a plenario Wednesday but left the final dictamen unresolved on key technical points.
- Negotiators remain split over the minimum thresholds to enter seat allocation and the number and format of boletas with proposals ranging roughly from 3 to 5 percent for general elections and a possible cut from five boletas to three.
- The draft preserves mandatory PASO, the Boleta Única, parity rules and Ficha Limpia and organizes about 260 articles across five books to unify electoral and party law.
- Lawmakers agreed on a transition that keeps the provincial Tribunal Electoral in charge until 2029 and then moves authority to a juzgado electoral with its judge chosen by sorteo from Contencioso Administrativo first-instance judges.
- Unidos holds the votes to pass the reform alone but is seeking broader opposition support for legitimacy while the PJ is waiting for the final text and FAS has already declared opposition, leaving the timing and outcome of a floor vote uncertain.