“We are happy to know that in many provinces the second force was not Kirchnerism, but the provincial ruling party. Official parties that are rational, pro-capitalist actors, and to which one plus one gives two. That is why we want to invite the vast majority of the governors who will have parliamentary representation to discuss these agreements together. In short, now we will be able to translate the slogans of the May Pact into laws,” he assured. Javier Milei In the speech he gave after the victory of Freedom Advances in the last legislative elections on Sunday.
He May Pact It was a proposal from the National Executive Branch to all provincial governments, presented and signed on July 9, 2024, in which ten points were raised: the inviolability of private property; the non-negotiable fiscal balance; the reduction of public spending to historic levels; an education with full literacy and without school dropouts; a tax reform that reduces tax pressure and promotes trade; the rediscussion of federal tax sharing; the commitment of the provinces to advance the exploitation of natural resources; a modern labor reform; a pension reform and opening to international trade.
For this reason, in a key move to consolidate political power after its recent electoral victory, the Casa Rosada will receive this afternoon a group of between 15 and 17 governors, with whom it will begin to negotiate the structural reforms that the national government intends to send to Congress before the end of the year. The meeting, scheduled for 5:00 p.m., will mark the formal beginning of a series of conversations aimed at ensuring political support for the labor and tax reform projects that the ruling party will seek to debate in the first part of 2026.
Among the leaders who confirmed their presence are: Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos), Raúl Jalil (Catamarca), Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán), Jorge Macri (City of Buenos Aires), Claudio Poggi (San Luis), Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe), Carlos Sadir (Jujuy) and Ignacio “Nacho” Torres (Chubut). By Mendoza, Meanwhile, the vice governor will attend Hebe Marriedrepresenting Alfredo Cornejowho will not be able to attend due to commitments made previously. Although the list of absentees may increase, surpassing those present, for the moment, the absence of the Buenos Aires governor is taken for granted. Axel Kicillofthe Formoseño Guildo Insfran, the pampas Sergio Raúl Ziliotto the Fuegian Gustavo Melella and the riojano Ricardo Quintela.
On the national side, the coordinator of ministers will be present, Guillermo Francos; the Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo; and the head of the Interior portfolioLisandro Catalán. The intention of the Executive is to open an instance of dialogue with the provincial leaders to evaluate their positions on the reforms that are being developed within the so-called May Council, a multisectoral body headed by the Chief of Staff and integrated, among others, by the minister Federico Sturzenegger (Deregulation and Transformation of the State), Governor Cornejo, Senator Carolina Losada, Representative Cristian Ritondo, the unionist Gerardo Martinez (UOCRA) and the businessman Martin Rappallini (UIA).
Meanwhile, the Casa Rosada is already working on the call for extraordinary sessions for the summer, which will mainly serve to discuss the 2026 Budget, presented in September. The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martin Menem, It also analyzes the possibility of including other projects, although the central reforms are not yet completed. According to official sources, the Mayo Council will present its final report on December 15, and only then will the Executive move forward in the final drafting of the initiatives that Milei will seek to approve with a new correlation of legislative forces favorable to La Libertad Avanza.
The positive results for the ruling party, which exceeded 40% approval at the national level, hit the coalition hard. United Provinces which barely positioned itself with approximately 7% throughout the country and made possible a new push for the presidential proposal. In the bunker, the libertarian president anticipated: “We are going to be able to sit down and discuss the foundations for a different Argentina, an Argentina that today we cannot even imagine. Because one fact that became clear today is that two out of every three Argentines do not want to return to the past.”
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