The Argentine Congress is preparing to discuss again the great State reform project of the Government of Javier Milei. Two months after the scrapping law promoted by the president stalled in the Chamber of Deputies, the Government sent a new draft of its project to legislators this Tuesday at the last minute.

The Government hopes that its new omnibus bill, which has gone from the 664 articles of the original project presented in January to a version of less than 279, now awaits the support of part of the opposition that refused to approve it on December 6. Milei still claims the emergency legislative powers in administrative and economic matters that the deputies refused to grant him in February, but now he asks for them for a single year – instead of the two extendable for another two years in the original text. The new text also reduces the list of 40 state companies open to privatization to a new one of only 18 from which it has removed companies such as the state oil company YPF. The cabinet has been holding silent meetings for weeks with provincial representatives to ensure that this time the law reaches its parliamentary discussion with the text approved by a majority.