Buenos Aires, Jan 2 (NA) – The PRO bloc issued a statement on the government decree amending the SIDE and stated that it is 'essential to know the protocols of use, rules of application, and operational scope' of the measure. 'Within the PRO bloc, we have formed a specialized team that is analyzing Decree 941/2025, through which the National Executive Branch introduced amendments to National Intelligence Law No. 25.520,' the bloc began. In a communiqué accessed by the Argentine News Agency, it stated: 'We believe that the issue addressed is central to the country's security and defense, so our initial stance is to act with institutional responsibility: to be prudent and await the issuance of application protocols and complementary regulations before taking a definitive position.' 'It is important to note that amending the intelligence law through a Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) is a tool that has been used in the past by governments of different political stripes,' indicated the bloc led by Cristian Ritondo. 'In that sense, we understand that this is not an unprecedented mechanism within the functioning of the Argentine state. We reaffirm our commitment to a modern, professional intelligence, subject to the law, with strong democratic controls and exclusively at the service of the security of Argentines. We will continue to analyze the complementary regulations and protocols that the National Executive Branch will issue in the coming days, and once we have that information, we will express our final position with the seriousness that the topic requires,' added the bloc. We believe that the changes introduced could be positive, but we insist that it is essential to know the protocols of use, rules of application, and operational scope, both for counterintelligence tasks and for powers related to the apprehension of persons, emphasizing that the latter is of a restrictive and exceptional nature, given that the intelligence agent cannot reveal their identity or make themselves known during the exercise of their function,' the bloc stressed. Furthermore, it highlighted that 'one of the points to highlight as clearly positive is the integration and unification of state databases.' 'This modernization was a historical debt: Argentina was decades behind in terms of interoperability of strategic information for national security. Law 25.520 was enacted in the year 2001. 25 years have passed since its promulgation, and the world—along with its threats and challenges—has changed radically.' 'Argentina is not alien to this transformation, which confirms the need to move towards a structural and comprehensive reform of the national intelligence system. Likewise, we remember that the treatment of this data is not discretionary, but is strictly limited and regulated by the current personal data protection laws, which establish its permitted uses in a categorical manner,' the bloc highlighted. In turn, it emphasized: 'Therefore, we do not see legal risks in the integration of information, as long as it is applied within the existing regulatory framework.'
