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Senate Plenary Clears 'Ley Hojarasca' Dictamen for Floor Debate

The decision makes the package eligible for a Senate vote and sets up a fight over cultural protections and public medicine production before the winter recess.

Overview

  • A Senate plenario led by Nadia Márquez and Agustín Coto signed a despacho in mid‑June that advances the Ley Hojarasca and makes it eligible for treatment on the floor within seven days.
  • The omnibus package proposes to repeal or modify roughly 63–70 statutes and to suspend two decrees that the government labels obsolete or bureaucratic.
  • Governing blocs including La Libertad Avanza, PRO and the UCR secured the dictamen after negotiated concessions that spared specific benefits such as parking credentials, cooperative credit rules and some funding streams.
  • Opposition Peronist and Convicción Federal senators filed minority reports and objected that the text could remove protections for cultural patrimony and the public production of medicines.
  • If scheduled for plenary before the winter recess, the vote could reshape dozens of niche and consequential rules and force further bargaining over which norms are truly obsolete.