Overview
- The 15-member chamber, in a pre-dawn Friday vote, overturned Law 1529 by 11–4, halting a 2023 plan to revise about 70 of the province’s 211 constitutional articles.
- Governor Gustavo Melella had signed a decree on April 29 calling elections for convention delegates on August 9, and his office says he will veto the repeal and keep the convocation in place.
- The repeal passed with an unusual alliance that included La Cámpora’s Justicialist bloc, La Libertad Avanza, the Movimiento Popular Fueguino, Somos Fueguinos and minor single-member blocs.
- Backers of the rollback cited the cost of the process, estimated near 8,000 million pesos, and worsening finances such as large debts at the provincial health insurer OSEF and ongoing teacher pay protests.
- A legal clash now looms, with a 2025 ruling by the provincial Superior Tribunal upholding the convocation cited by the executive and some constitutional experts arguing the reform sequence cannot be cut off.