La Libertad Avanza has put a brake on activity in Congress after passing six laws in extraordinary sessions, despite President Javier Milei's announcement that he will push forward with packages of structural reform laws. Ten days into the ordinary sessions, the Chamber of Deputies only plans to debate the reform of the Glaciers Law, which the Government agreed to with allied governors, but which faces resistance from factions that supported the government on other initiatives. This bill was passed by the Senate on February 26 and the La Libertad Avanza (LLA) bloc aims to approve it in a session to be held in the first half of April, following public hearings. But outside the debate on this Glaciers Law project, parliamentary activity is completely paralyzed in the Chamber of Deputies as the Government has not sent any of the bills from the package of laws that Milei announced at the opening of the ordinary sessions. Parliamentary sources told the Argentine News Agency that LLA will seek to reactivate parliamentary activity when the Government sends the projects it is designing and that, until then, it is not planned to open parliamentary activity. In the Legislative Assembly on March 1, Milei announced without giving great details that he will promote judicial, political, Civil, Commercial and Procedural Code, educational, Customs Code, tax reforms, and will send for ratification the agreement signed with the United States. One of the first bills to reach the Chamber of Deputies was the political reform bill, where the ruling bloc seeks to eliminate primaries, change the financing system for political campaigns and toughen the requirements for the recognition of political parties. However, a government source stated that "like all new laws that are sent to Congress, they have not yet been discussed in the political table to see their implications, scope, modifications and others".
Political Activity in Argentine Congress Paused
The Argentine government has paused the consideration of a broad package of reforms in Congress, focusing on the Glaciers Law. The opposition awaits new bills from President Milei, while political reform remains undefined.