Overview
- Argentina’s Senate Constitutional Affairs Committee issued a majority opinion to insist on the original Senate text tightening controls on presidential emergency decrees.
- Unión por la Patria signed the opinion in partial dissent and requested dialogue with the Chamber of Deputies to seek a version less likely to face a presidential veto.
- The Senate draft requires both chambers to affirm each DNU within 90 days or the decree lapses, replaces tacit approval with explicit votes, and allows rejection by either chamber to nullify a decree.
- The proposal also bans omnibus DNUs, permits summer sessions to review decrees, and bars reissuing a decree on the same subject until the next legislative year.
- A floor vote could be scheduled before November 30, as President Javier Milei has signaled he would veto the reform and the government expects the post‑December Congress to block an override; tensions in the Senate grew as the legislative staff union warned of escalated protests.