The governor of Chaco, Leandro Zdero, inaugurated the 58th ordinary session with a package of announcements that mixes 'fiscal order' with high-voltage political reforms: constitutional reform, a new investment law, and a change to the union leave regime within the State. According to what Argentine News Agency learned, in the most sensitive part, the official proposed a reform to 'provide legal stability' to large investments, with an explicit objective: to exclude them from expropriations and prohibit the creation of new provincial or municipal taxes. Zdero also assured that the province has already paid more than USD 200 million in 'inherited' debt and announced a works plan for over $33,000 billion for 2026, with aqueducts, roads, sanitation, and security works. However, the speech left a key gap for any audit: it did not detail the breakdown of works by project, nor deadlines, control mechanisms, nor the real fiscal impact of the 'progressive tax reduction' in a province with a strong dependence on external resources. The announcement of the modification of union leave adds tension: if the Government establishes that 'they cannot charge without working', the conflict becomes inevitable in education and public administration, and the cost ends up being paid in services. With the constitutional reform on the agenda, the underlying debate is posed: protection for investments and institutional adjustment, but with open questions about transparency, sustainability, and who bears the cost when politics translates into the streets and strikes.
