Buenos Aires, November 27 (NA) — Twenty-three of the 24 senators elected in the October elections will be sworn into office this Friday in a preparatory session to be held at 11 AM in the chamber, although they will assume their seats on December 10 alongside the 127 new deputies, while the situation of Neuquén's Lorena Villaverde continues. The Senate will thus resume its activities in the chamber with the swearing-in of the elected legislators, before the turnover of Congress on December 10. Meanwhile, the Government is debating the format and duration of the extraordinary session period in which it will seek to approve the 2026 Budget and the labor reform. The case of Lorena Villaverde Although La Libertad Avanza (LLA) had hoped to secure the swearing-in of elected Senator Lorena Villaverde and prevent the impugnation against her, promoted by Peronism, from prospering, the office of the elected legislator will return to the Constitutional Affairs Committee. Last week, Peronism promoted an impugnation against Villaverde that received a 'non-binding' opinion in the Constitutional Affairs Committee, due to accusations against the legislator for having supposed ties to the businessman accused of drug trafficking Federico 'Fred' Machado and for the cases she had in the United States. What's next According to what the Argentine News Agency learned, President Javier Milei is set to sign the decree in the coming days, following the swearing-in of senators this Friday and on December 3 in the Chamber of Deputies. Although there are no final definitions and the date remains subject to debate, at least two officials and two legislative sources have raised the possibility to this agency that the call could be made public next Friday, December 5. However, the issue is not closed. 'It's not defined, anything is possible,' an important source stated on the matter. Bullrich met with the libertarian bloc in the Senate and is preparing to exercise her leadership with an iron hand. Another debate facing the libertarian administration is the extension that the extension of sessions in the National Congress will have. In the libertarian bloc, the intention is to extend the dates, planned from December 10 to the 31st of the same month with continuity in February.
