Overview
- - The Chamber of Deputies passed a new juvenile penal regime lowering the age of imputability from 16 to 14 by 149–100, sending the bill to the Senate for final approval.
- - The administration is fast-tracking the labor reform in Diputados on a compressed schedule tied to late February, but opposition blocs are working on changes that would force the text back to the Senate and delay enactment.
- - The labor package already cleared the Senate in general and would introduce a bank of hours, revised severance calculations, a Labor Assistance Fund, authorization for foreign-currency salary payments, and updates to collective-bargaining rules if it passes unchanged.
- - The executive added a university-financing bill to extraordinary sessions without a public draft, as university unions warn of lack of consultation and CIN–Education Ministry talks reference a disputed 12.3% salary recomposition offer and paritaria reopenings.
- - Markets wobbled despite legislative advances, with Argentine ADRs falling up to 11%, the dollar Merval posting its steepest five-month drop, and country risk topping 500, while a federal social-security court ordered provisional restoration of Cristina Kirchner’s survivor’s pension.