No agreement on the Budget; the ruling party postpones its schedule and heads toward the extraordinary sessions.

Torrrendell and Álvarez on the Budget CommitteeThe debate in the Chamber of Deputies is paralyzed. The Budget schedule has already been missed and the La Libertad Avanza bloc continues to stretch out the debate as it seeks the signatures that would allow it to bring the bill to the floor. The original schedule announced by the chairman of the Budget Committee, Bertie Benegas Lynch, indicated that the bill would receive a committee report yesterday, Wednesday. However, the committee meeting was suspended due to a lack of agreements between the ruling party (La Libertad Avanza) and the allied blocs (PRO, UCR, and provincial delegations). Under this new scheme, the ruling party and the allied blocs will take the next ten days to try to narrow their differences and, according to reports, the new date on which the libertarian bloc will seek to obtain the necessary signatures would be November 12. If there is an agreement, the date the ruling party is considering for going to the floor is November 25. This new schedule is shaped by several factors. The main one is that there is no agreement on various points, such as the distribution to the provinces of the funds collected by the national state. The governors and the allied blocs are asking LLA for the text to be more precise about how and when it will transfer the funds from the pension funds that have not been transferred. They are also demanding that the Executive be clearer and more expansive — the bill contemplates around 1.3 trillion pesos for public works. Carlos Guberman, Secretary of the TreasuryThe room for maneuver in the negotiations is determined by two external factors. The first is the midterm elections in the United States. Starting this weekend, legislators from nearly all the parliamentary blocs will begin traveling to the North American country, invited by different organizations to participate as observers or simply as guests of non-governmental organizations. The elections are next Tuesday, so the legislators could be back in the country on Thursday. However, another window of time opens up that will also serve to try to close an agreement. On Sunday, November 8, Pope Leo XIV will arrive in Argentina, where he will remain until Wednesday, November 11, so the ruling party and the opposition will be focused on the Holy Father's visit to the country. In the midst of this, the ruling party also plans to open the floor to consider the National Sovereignty Defense bill, popularly known as the Malvinas bill. The La Libertad Avanza bloc's intention is to bring it to the floor on Wednesday, November 18. But this too remains subject to agreements with the opposition, so that none of the bills the latter is pushing get "slipped in." With the outcome of both matters still unknown, what has been established is that there is no longer any room for the national Executive to avoid calling extraordinary sessions, because, if that schedule holds, the Chamber of Senators will not have enough time to consider either of the two bills. By its rules, the Chamber of Senators needs a minimum of two weeks to consider a bill, since in one week it is handled in committee and seven days must elapse between the committee report and the bill's arrival on the floor. But that is not all: it also became known that the Chief of Staff, Diego Santilli, informed the Lower House that he will appear on Wednesday, November 25, to deliver the management report, so the only free date left for the senators to hold a session would be Thursday, November 26.