Overview
- Jefe de gabinete Manuel Adorni denied wrongdoing in Congress as a federal probe reviews family property purchases and a private-jet trip, with multiple polls cited by the Financial Times showing President Javier Milei’s approval sliding to roughly the mid‑30s and confidence down 12% in April.
- Judges in the reopened Cuadernos graft case ruled out televising hearings, and recent testimony reported by La Jornada described business executives saying they were pressured in 2019 to testify as cooperating witnesses.
- Sur Finanzas owner Ariel (Maximiliano) Vallejo has been summoned to give a statement in a money‑laundering case tied to football club funds, with prior raids at AFA and clubs, asset freezes, travel bans and monthly police check‑ins ordered by a federal court in Lomas de Zamora.
- The government is preserving its fiscal surplus by delaying payments at PAMI, the state health insurer for retirees, which providers say has pushed them to a breaking point as services face mounting strain.
- While Interior officials court governors for electoral reforms, reported non‑automatic transfers to provinces fell 53% in real terms year over year for the month, a squeeze that could force deeper local cuts and raise political costs in Congress and in provincial capitals.