After approving the 2026 budget bill in general, the ruling coalition suffered a setback by failing to sustain the controversial article 75, through which the Government sought to repeal the emergency laws on Disability and university funding. These laws had been approved by Congress with a comfortable majority and, after being vetoed by President Javier Milei, the opposition managed to reinstate them through insistence with two-thirds of the votes in both chambers. The defeat of chapter 11, which only managed 117 positive votes against 123 negative votes and two abstentions, was celebrated with euphoria by the entire opposition. Article 75 had been included by the ruling coalition at the last minute, which unleashed a huge controversy, as reported by the Argentine News Agency. The restriction on the cold zone regime and the elimination of the automatic updating of the Universal Allowance for Child, Pregnancy, and Family Allowances, as the Government had intended, was also dropped from the project. The project incorporated, at the request of PRO, the compliance with the procedural acts ordered by the Supreme Court on the claim for the revenue sharing of the City of Buenos Aires, and also the transfer of resources to the supreme court to the Council of the Magistrature for 21.347 billion pesos. But since this modification was incorporated in chapter 11, which was voted against in particular, it was left without effect. The controversy arose because the ruling coalition incorporated all these measures into chapter 11 to condition different political forces to support an entire package of measures, without being able to speak out for or against them in a differentiated way. "It's extortion," accused the deputy of the Civic Coalition Maximiliano Ferraro, who warned that those who voted in favor of article 75 would be "violating the financial administration law". The head of the Union for the Patria bloc, Germán Martínez, explained the mechanism used by the ruling coalition to shield article 75, and classified it as a "perversity". And if not, they force us to vote against everything.
