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Santilli on Budget and Disputed Laws: 'Must Start Adjusting from Other Items'

Argentina's Interior Minister Diego Santilli commented on the 2026 budget situation and the disability and university financing laws the government tried to repeal. He called them an 'excess of regulation' and warned of the need for adjustments if the budget is not passed.


Santilli on Budget and Disputed Laws: 'Must Start Adjusting from Other Items'

Interior Minister Diego Santilli stated on Tuesday that the emergency laws on Disability and University Financing, which the government attempted to repeal via Article 75 of the 2026 Budget, and which the opposition managed to overturn in a session of the Chamber of Deputies, constituted an 'excess of regulation.' He warned that if this issue in the project is not 'corrected,' they will have to 'start adjusting from other items.' 'But we must have a budget,' the official emphasized, insisting that 'our country deserves to have a budget after three years.' 'We deserve to have a roadmap, a way to express a vision, a path, a budget where 85% is for pensions, social spending, health, education, and disability,' he underlined. 'Argentines should strive to have a budget, and I believe that most governors and senators are on the same page,' he expressed. In an interview with 'Pan y Circo,' a show hosted by Jonatan Viale on Radio Rivadavia, Santilli highlighted that in the 'last three items,' the spending 'substantially exceeds inflation.' The Judiciary ordered the government to immediately enforce the university financing law. In this sense, he considered that the emergency laws on Disability and University Financing constitute an 'excess of regulation.' 'When you look at the regulatory framework generated by disability pensions, if you take it to the extreme, it would be 1,600,000 new disability pensions.'