Politically, it is recognized that the governors' demands have gained weight in the face of persistent forest fires and the need to coordinate federal resources. This Thursday's meeting will be key to determining whether the ruling party maintains a limited agenda or finally opens the door to new initiatives, in a delicate balance between the government's own agenda and the urgent demands arising from the provinces affected by the environmental emergency. Both projects are part of the legislative priorities of the ruling party and are considered strategic by the government to advance its structural reform program. That meeting was attended by the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei; the Minister of the Interior, Diego Santilli; the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem; the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo; the presidential advisor Santiago Caputo and Senator Patricia Bullrich, who agreed on the need to order the agenda to avoid dispersion in a shortened legislative period. However, in recent hours, the scenario has begun to change due to the pressure exerted by various governors, who demanded the intervention of the National Congress in the face of the magnitude of the forest fires affecting several southern Argentine provinces. The meeting will be headed by the presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni, who will be in charge of the final definition of the agenda. According to official sources, the meeting was brought forward from the initially scheduled date, which was set for next week. 'Surely, between today and tomorrow, this is going to appear on the agenda,' it was anticipated. The potential incorporation of the debate on the fires would imply a political gesture towards the provincial leaders and could modify the dynamics of the extraordinary sessions, which until now were exclusively intended for reforms promoted by the Executive Branch. On this occasion, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, will participate remotely via a Zoom connection, while the rest of the members will do so in person at the Casa Rosada. The discussion on the content of the extraordinary sessions already had a first chapter at the beginning of the week. The advance of the fire, the extension of the affected areas and the economic and environmental impact reopened the debate on the need to declare a state of emergency and enable extraordinary assistance tools. In this context, it was Patricia Bullrich herself who this Tuesday publicly recognized that the national government is evaluating expanding the agenda of the extraordinary sessions to incorporate the debate linked to the emergency due to forest fires. Buenos Aires, January 29, 2026 - Total News Agency - TNA - The Government's political table will meet this Thursday at 12:00 p.m. with the aim of closing the legislative agenda that the ruling party will promote during the extraordinary sessions period scheduled for February, in a context traversed by the governors' claim for Congress to deal with the emergency caused by the forest fires affecting the south of the country. In that previous meeting, the political table resolved to concentrate the parliamentary agenda on two central axes: labor reform and modifications to the Juvenile Penal Law, with special emphasis on reducing the age of criminal responsibility. The senator indicated that the formal definition must be communicated by Manuel Adorni, but she suggested that the inclusion of the topic is highly likely.
