Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies granted media sanción to the Ley Hojarasca on Thursday with 138 votes in favor, 96 against and 9 abstentions, and the text has been sent to the Senate for final debate.
- The package aims to remove roughly 63–70 statutes that the government calls obsolete or duplicative, ranging from arcane technical rules to laws on public programs and institutional funding.
- Governing and allied blocs including La Libertad Avanza, PRO and UCR backed the bill while Unión por la Patria and left‑wing deputies voted against it, exposing a clear partisan split over scope and intent.
- Lawmakers already narrowed the proposal during committee and floor debate by withdrawing or excluding some derogations, for example preserving the credential law for legislators and removing certain credit‑related provisions.
- The Senate vote will determine whether controversial cuts touching science, public production, land and markets stand and could prompt sectoral pushback or legal challenges that would shape how the reforms affect access to medicines, cabotage rules and property controls.