High-ranking sources from the Unión por la Patria (UxP) block admitted in a conversation with the Argentine News Agency that they could not reach an agreement. In this way, the different political forces are reorganizing with a focus on the extraordinary sessions called by the national Executive Branch, starting on December 1st. During this period, a restricted legislative agenda will be considered, including a series of hand-picked initiatives by the government itself, with the 2026 Budget as the main course. The ruling coalition will have to reset negotiations on the project that sets the expenses and revenues of the public sector, as the reports signed on November 4th will automatically lose validity when the ordinary sessions conclude. This applies to all projects that have not at least passed a vote in one of the two chambers. In the case of the 2026 Budget, La Libertad Avanza (LLA) achieved a majority report on November 4th with the tie-breaking vote of the committee chairman, Alberto Benegas Lynch, but the text had not been agreed upon with the governors and still requires adjustments to be votable by a bloc of forces representing provincial powers. With the mission of weaving together sufficient agreements, the new Minister of the Interior, Diego Santilli, began holding consultations with governors, taking note of their demands and gauging their willingness to support the official roadmap. Santilli came away from these meetings with a generally positive impression, but these macro-understandings now need to be translated into concrete concessions for the provinces in terms of public works, transfers for 13 pension funds, guarantees for renegotiating provincial debts, and a more equitable distribution of the TN and revenue from the fuel tax. The talks will be reignited in the coming days with the start of the extraordinary sessions, when what some prominent voices in the parliamentary majority have dubbed the "Zinc Square" will come into play: Benegas Lynch; the Secretary of the Treasury, Carlos Guberman; the Chief of Staff's deputy, José Rolandi; and especially, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem. Santilli will join this operational group to facilitate negotiations, and the Budget will not be voted on until the newly elected deputies have taken their seats on December 10th, when the new composition of the chamber—with a much more favorable balance of power for the government—will take shape. After the Budget, the discussion will continue with the Fiscal Innocence Law, labor reform, the Glaciers Law reform, and tax reform, possibly in that order. The extraordinary sessions were called for the period between December 1st and December 31st, but there will be a second call to session in February for any remaining issues. For this failed session, opposition sectors sought to pass declarations of emergency for SMEs and micro-SMEs, an emergency for the scientific and technological system, the democratization of the leadership structure of ANDIS, and, especially, the election of the body's representatives before the General Audit Office. Santilli met with Passalacqua, who presented Misiones' demands, and will continue with Jujuy's governor, Sadir. In the same session, they also sought to bid farewell to Radical K Leopoldo Moreau, who will conclude his term after a long 26-year career, having entered the UCR in 1983 and remained in his seat until 1995. Throughout the year, the coalition of opposition blocs had built a majority that allowed it to dominate the parliamentary agenda, pass laws rejected by the ruling majority, and form a commission to investigate the major Libra cryptocurrency scam. Following LLA's victory in the October 26th elections, the opposition majority built between Unión por la Patria, Encuentro Federal, the Front of the Left, Democracy Forever, and the Civic Coalition began to unravel, and since that date, they have been unable to stitch together any agreement. This majority allowed them to pass the Disability Emergency Law, increase funding for universities, allocate more funds for the Garrahan hospital, and resist vetoes on these norms, although the government later decided not to implement them. They also advanced on a pension law and an ATP law, but in the first case, the government was able to ratify the presidential veto, and in the second case, the veto has not yet been considered because the opposition did not gather the two-thirds majority. The current political context is different, and each political force is building its own space for the new scenario, where the ruling majority is close to becoming the first minority and Peronism is on high alert to avoid losing its status as the leading force in the Chamber of Deputies. The ruling coalition will have a bloc of 91 of its own deputies and will need to reach agreements with PRO, the UCR, Federal Innovation, and a sector of United Provinces to pass the package of laws that will be debated in the extraordinary sessions. Buenos Aires, November 25 (NA) – The ordinary session period will officially end on November 28th, and the opposition has run out of time to convene the chamber one last time to deal with pending bills, as they were unable to reach the necessary agreements. "The session is off the table."
