Overview
- Mayors report a sharp fall in coparticipation—the shared federal taxes sent to provinces and towns—along with weaker local collections that now threaten payrolls and basic services.
- COFEIN, the federal council of mayors, denounced “critical financial choke” and filed demands for automatic, formula-based transfers and a share of fuel-tax revenue.
- The national government authorized 400 billion pesos in advance revenue shares to 12 provinces, a stopgap that local leaders say does not fix the funding gap.
- A federal judge lifted bank secrecy on Cabinet chief Manuel Adorni and his wife in an illicit enrichment probe at the request of prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita.
- Senate Peronist leader José Mayans urged the lower house to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Javier Milei and leveled sharp attacks on his inner circle.