Overview
- - The fourth Marcha Federal Universitaria, which drew crowds Tuesday in Buenos Aires and across provinces, rallied students, rectors, and unions including the CGT to defend public universities.
- - Demonstrators demanded enforcement of the University Financing Law, noting Congress passed it and later overrode a presidential veto, yet the executive has not applied it.
- - Senior officials called the rally “completely political” and kept an administrative budget change of nearly 2.5 trillion pesos that reduced education funds, citing a pending Supreme Court step to justify holding off on the law.
- - Inside the Casa Rosada, Manuel Adorni convened the Mesa Política at 4 p.m. to push an electoral overhaul that would scrap party primaries known as PASO, even as Patricia Bullrich and allies seek to advance only a narrower “clean record” measure called Ficha Limpia.
- - The Adorni investigation advanced under Judge Ariel Lijo and prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita for alleged illicit enrichment, and a related case led by prosecutor Carlos Stornelli requested records on the consultancy of Adorni’s wife and its links to state suppliers.