Overview
- Hours after Tuesday night’s 3-0 win over Algeria and Lionel Messi’s hat-trick, La Rioja posted on X that it would grant a morning asueto for provincial public administration and state schools.
- The government said the measure was meant to let citizens share a moment of collective celebration and that critical services would continue through guardias mínimas.
- Several private schools chose to adhere to the provincial asueto while at least one provincial agency, the social security body APOS, did not follow the decision.
- The midnight announcement prompted mixed responses online and drew public criticism from Mendoza vicegovernor Hebe Casado, who wrote that the best way to celebrate is by working with enthusiasm.
- The move recalls the national DNU that declared a day off after Argentina’s 2022 World Cup win and is likely to fuel debate over the use of official time off for sporting events.