The Casa Rosada begins campaign for labor reform

Buenos Aires, Jan 7 (Prensa Latina) The Casa Rosada launched an offensive to secure the necessary votes to pass the labor reform that President Javier Milei wants to impose, which is rejected by the opposition and the entire labor movement.

January 7, 2026
10:01

The executive branch dispatched Interior Minister Diego Santilli on a tour of several provinces with the aim of convincing governors, in exchange for promises of funding, to ask their legislators to support the bill, which failed to advance in the extraordinary sessions of December as the president had hoped.

This Wednesday, January 7, Santilli will arrive in the Patagonian province of Chubut to meet with its governor, Ignacio Torres, and discuss the labor reform and other projects of the Executive Branch, according to the presidential office.

This province is currently battling intense wildfires. As minister in charge of these matters, Santilli will also inspect, along with Torres, the joint operations being carried out between the national and provincial governments to combat the fires.

According to the schedule, Santilli will travel to at least ten provinces during January, prior to the extension of the extraordinary sessions scheduled for February 2nd, when the Senate will open a hearing to discuss the bill the executive branch calls “Labor Modernization,” one of Milei’s obsessions.

Three major mobilizations by Argentina’s labor unions and a hardline stance from the legislative opposition even prevented the ruling party from bringing the reform to a vote.

Meanwhile, concurrently with the Interior Minister’s tour, Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni reactivated talks with the legislative team, acting as an interlocutor for Javier and Karina Milei, to replicate the strategy that led to the approval last December of the 2026 Budget and the Fiscal Innocence Law. To secure the approval of the 2026 Budget, Patricia Bullrich, head of the La Libertad Avanza bloc in the Senate, and Martín Menem, as president of the Chamber of Deputies, also worked in coordination. They exerted their influence alongside Santilli, Presidential Advisor Eduardo Menem, and the Secretary of Strategic Affairs, Ignacio Devitt.

So far, the unions show no sign of budging in their rejection, nor does the opposition, particularly its hardliners.

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