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Argentina’s senate delivers blow to Milei’s agenda, overturning veto on disability benefits
Senate vote of 63-7 restores disability benefits funding and state hiring quotas despite budget concerns and a bribery scandal involving the president's sister.
- Argentina's senate voted 63-7 to override President Javier Milei's veto on raising disability benefits, marking his first congressional defeat.
- This legislative defeat complicates Milei's presidency amid a corruption scandal involving his sister and economic challenges.
- Milei's approval rating has reportedly dropped below 40% for the first time since he took office in December 2023.
- Milei's need to expand his congressional minority is critical for his free-market agenda to restore investor confidence.
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For the first time, the Argentine president had to accept a serious setback in the Congress. Javier Milei's veto was overruled by the Senate in Buenos Aires.
Argentina lawmakers overturn Milei’s veto
Argentine lawmakers overturned a key veto issued by President Javier Milei, a move that comes ahead of legislative elections that could define his term. The libertarian leader had sought to halt the bill to increase pensions and disability benefits, saying it threatened to derail his austerity agenda, which has helped cool soaring inflation rates. But for the first time, the opposition-led Senate on Thursday voted to overturn the presidential ve…
Social Policy - Setback for Argentina's President Milei - Congress Overrules Veto for the First Time
In Argentina, President Milei has suffered a serious setback in Congress for the first time.
Javier Milei had blocked a law aimed at increasing aid to people with disabilities. Now, after the parliament, the Senate has also overruled the president.
The Argentine president, Javier Milei, suffered this afternoon two setbacks in Congress for his administration, after the Senate rejected its veto of the Disability Emergency Law, with which it sought to prevent persons with disabilities from accessing a pension equivalent to 70% of the minimum, and the latter was reinstated. Later, the Upper Transandina Chamber sent to the Chamber of Deputies the modification of the legal regime of the so-calle…
Javier Milei beats records in parliamentary matters. A year ago he became the first Argentine president that Congress rejected a decree of necessity and urgency. Now, in a new defeat for the ultra government, Parliament rejected with a large majority a veto of the president and reaffirmed the approval of the emergency law on disability. 22 years ago legislators did not insist on a law vetoed by the executive branch. Continue reading
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