News of congress

Government renews push for 'Ficha Limpia' anti-graft bill

18-01-2025 13:40 President Javier Milei sends so-called 'Clean Record' bill to Congress; If passed, the bill would block former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from seeking office in 2025 midterms.

Milei extends 2023 Budget for second year running

30-12-2024 15:46 President Javier Milei announces that Argentina's Budget for next year will be an extension of the current one – itself a rollover from 2023.

No quorum, no forum

07-12-2024 05:30 Congress becomes its own worst enemy when deputies and senators refuse to do the work for which the tax-payer remunerates them.

by Michael Soltys

Budget clash, extra sessions, Speaker Menem – Milei’s first year in Congress

04-12-2024 17:39 Despite being firmly in the minority, Milei has managed to amend over 100 laws since taking office and advance his programme of fiscal austerity. Nevertheless, tensions with allies and opposition persist, centred on the 2025 Budget, anti-graft laws and electoral reform.

by Facundo Maceira

Bill targeting ‘obsolete’ laws, bureaucracy reaches Congress

14-10-2024 12:50 State deregulation czar Federico Sturzenegger confirms President Javier Milei’s government has sent the ‘Ley Hojarasca’ bill to Congress that seeks repeal of around 70 laws considered “obsolete” or that “limit the freedom of citizens.”

Reducing the issue

12-10-2024 06:16 Both sides fall into the error of reducing this issue to a budget tussle without bringing up the major structural problems of university education.

Lower house deputies approve single paper ballot in time for 2025 midterms

02-10-2024 15:42 More than two years after they first approved it, lawmakers in Argentina back the use of a single ballot paper for nationwide votes; Measure backed in a 143-87 vote with five abstentions.

Untidily Crumbling Radicals

28-09-2024 06:05 The Unión Cívica Radical crisis perhaps stems from standing or falling from being the men in the middle in many senses – representing a middle class facing extinction and a middle ground squeezed out by polarisation.

by Michael Soltys

Nobody wins

14-09-2024 06:37 Milei risks his popularity with insensitivity towards pensioners in the name of maintaining a fiscal surplus.

Javier Milei in the real world of the Lilliputians

14-09-2024 05:51 There may be nothing more “caste” than a group of deputies who vote one way one day and another way a few weeks later. But Milei knows that some elements of the caste are more useful than others, depending on which side of the political equation they fall.

by Marcelo J. García

Milei cuts Caputo, will present Budget bill to Congress

10-09-2024 18:19 President Javier Milei will present his administration's preliminary budget bill for 2025 at Congress personally on Sunday in a primetime speech.

Demonstration against veto of pension reform turns violent

04-09-2024 19:45 Police and security forces clash outside Congress with march in defence of retirees and pensioners; Groups of “pro-dialogue” lawmakers seek backing to overturn Milei veto in lower house in special session next Wednesday.

Arrieta jumps ship after leaking bills to free dictatorship criminals

28-08-2024 23:56 Amid controversy within La Libertad Avanza over the visit of pro-government deputies to criminals convicted for crimes against humanity at Ezeiza Prison, national deputy leaks draft bills and decree that aim to force through their release.

Milei the filling in a Macri-CFK sandwich

24-08-2024 05:57 Once again, when it seemed that the government had things under control, chaos erupts onto the scene.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Ariel Lijo defends Supreme Court candidacy before Senate

22-08-2024 19:22 Federal Judge Ariel Lijo, whose nomination for the nation’s highest tribunal has been questioned by politicians across the spectrum, pushes back against criticism in eight-hour hearing.

Senate passes new pension formula in defiance of Milei

22-08-2024 19:00 Senators approve bill that defies President Javier Milei’s bid to balance government’s books by reworking how pension payments are calculated. 

Tank poses, gifts and a toast – Milei’s Independence Day military parade

09-07-2024 15:21 President Javier Milei jumps into a tank with Vice-President Victoria Villarruel as he stages a military parade in Buenos Aires to mark the 208th anniversary of Independence Day.

Milei signs pact with governors signalling aid during austerity

09-07-2024 14:16 Eighteen governors ink the 'Pacto de Mayo' with President Milei at a historic site in Tucumán Province in northern Argentina.

After triumph in Congress, Milei faces challenge of governing

03-07-2024 15:49 Following approval of his ‘Ley de Bases’ reform push, experts say President Javier Milei is now entering a new phase in which the population will demand results.

Milei government prepares legislative agenda for 'second stage'

02-07-2024 16:57 Electoral reform being considered by the Executive branch and a bill could be ready for Congress by August; Ideally, it would include the elimination of the PASO primaries, the move to a single ballot system, the scrapping of gender parity quotas and a lowering of the minimum voting age.