Martín Llaryora's government sent a new Coexistence Code to the Córdoba Legislature in December 2025 combining three measures with a direct effect on daily life: banning informal fees charged by parking attendants, stopping windshield cleaning at traffic lights, and fining those responsible for children who failed to comply with the mandatory vaccination schedule. The initiative expanded the provincial police's intervention tools and signaled a political hardening after the Córdoba administration's electoral defeat in October.
The ban distinguished between two forms of vehicle watching. Workers authorized by the municipality, operating under fixed rates in metered parking areas, were excluded from the penalty. The change targeted informal attendants known as “naranjitas,” who had previously been allowed to accept a voluntary payment but, under the new rule, would no longer be able to conduct the activity or demand a specific amount for watching a car.
The government based the change on conflicts recorded during the year. Police had detained 350 naranjitas over fights or attempts to charge a fixed sum, and the executive extended the same approach to people cleaning windshields at intersections with traffic lights. Instead of handling incidents one by one through misdemeanor proceedings, the province moved to a general prohibition whose enforcement would rest with the police.
Security Minister Juan Pablo Quinteros became the main public face of the reform. His assertion that public order and social peace were not negotiable gained concrete expression in the Code, but the proposal also gave him a political platform: frustration with informal parking attendants was particularly strong among upper-middle and upper-income groups that had withdrawn support from the provincial Peronists. The measure therefore linked security policy to the construction of a candidacy for 2027.
The bill was due to enter debate on a Friday, and the governing bloc expected to assemble a majority to approve it the following Monday. The dispute did not simply pit the government against the opposition, because several opposition lawmakers had introduced similar bills and contested ownership of the punitive turn. The central question was who would capitalize on a demand for order shared across different blocs and how far the police's new powers would extend.
The other innovation was the fine tied to childhood vaccination. Health Minister Ricardo Pieckesteiner said the penalty sought to restore compliance with the mandatory schedule rather than pursue ideological positions. Córdoba used as a reference a rule promoted in Mendoza by Alfredo Cornejo, a Radical ally of Javier Milei, and placed a public-health obligation within the same misdemeanor code regulating the use of public space.
The debate also coincided with a legislative controversy over the appointment of prison ombudsmen, lifetime positions placed in the provincial state's highest salary bracket. Florencia Degano, an associate of Radical leader Julio Ochoa, was among those promoted for the new body. The vote on the Code had to show whether the government could separate that conflict from its security agenda and turn the prohibitions into enforceable policy; after approval, the decisive test would be the police's conduct on the ground.
