Overview
- The Senate Constitutional Affairs Commission was summoned to meet on Tuesday, 15 September at 15:30 in the Salón Illia to restart chapter-by-chapter discussion of the executive's electoral reform draft.
- The most contentious aim is to suspend or eliminate the PASO primary system, a change that requires aggravated majorities and that the ruling libertarian bloc does not yet control.
- The commission agenda now includes a Ficha Limpia bill that would bar candidates convicted in second instance and a Terenzi proposal on mandatory primary participation, a tactic the government hopes will attract hesitant UCR and PRO senators.
- Reported draft provisions would alter the Boleta Única de Papel to allow a full-ballot tick, raise private campaign funding while cutting direct state financing, tighten signature and party-recognition thresholds, and remove mandatory presidential debates.
- Passage depends on talks with the UCR, PRO and several governors and could reshape who can run and how campaigns are run, an outcome that would shift alliance-making, reduce guaranteed media access for some candidates, and strengthen parties with private fundraising reach.