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Milei's reelection, a coin in the air
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La Rioja
La Rioja to take its boundary claim against San Juan to the Supreme Court
La Rioja State Attorney Emilio Rodríguez announced a filing before the Supreme Court seeking the annulment of decree-law 18,004, issued during Onganía's dictatorship. San Juan rejected the claim and defended the validity of its provincial boundaries.
San Luis
UTEP rejects Poggi's raise and denounces the lowest teacher wage in 21 years
The teachers' union rejected the 20% staged increase announced by Claudio Poggi and demanded an immediate real wage recovery. According to UTEP, San Luis lost 52% of purchasing power since September 2023 and almost one third of wages remain non-remunerative sums.
La Rioja
Quintela moves his legislative majority to create La Rioja's Electoral Justice system
La Rioja's executive sent a bill to create an Electoral Tribunal and an Electoral Court with specific jurisdiction. The initiative does not change the voting method, but concentrates powers over the calendar, voter roll, challenges, parties and final count.
San Juan
San Juan defends teacher wage talks and says it leads salary increases nationwide
Emilio Achem said the province climbed from the next-to-last position to seventh place nationally in teacher salaries. Negotiations with UDAP, UDA and AMET remain open, with an offer of 3% in August, 3% in October and improvements in connectivity, the teacher scale and remote-area supplements.
Buenos Aires
Techint cut 150 contract workers at its Valentín Alsina pipe plant
Tenaris SIAT, part of Grupo Techint, terminated 150 contracts at its Valentín Alsina plant after losing two tenders linked to Vaca Muerta and Southern Energy's LNG project. The decision hits the country's only factory of this type of pipe.
Entre Ríos
UnionBat dismissed nearly 100 workers and the conflict reached the plant gates
Chemical workers at UnionBat's plant in the Gualeguaychú Industrial Park are maintaining a camp and shifts outside the facility to prevent possible dismantling. They are demanding Labour Ministry intervention and job continuity.
Mendoza
Cornejo confirms Mendoza will not suspend provincial PASO primaries
Alfredo Cornejo said Mendoza will keep the open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries for the provincial electoral calendar. The statement clears doubts over a possible suspension and marks a difference from the national debate on electoral rules.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
UCR calls for speeding up the federal accusatory system in Buenos Aires City
A draft resolution filed in the Chamber of Deputies and signed by the six national lawmakers from the UCR demands that the government speed up implementation of the accusatory system in Buenos Aires City. The bloc warns that further delays affect access to justice and weaken constitutional guarantees.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
Santoro says Peronist unity is not closed off and the right can split
Leandro Santoro argued that Peronism's division is not inevitable and that a split on the right is not impossible either. His diagnosis points to the opposition's architecture, the relationship between Peronism and Buenos Aires progressivism, and the political scenario toward 2027.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires accuses national government of blocking guarantees for priority works
Carlos Bianco criticised Luis Caputo for not signing guarantees that would allow access to international loans for public works. The province also denounced Diego Santilli's lack of response to a meeting request and warned about the impact of changes to the transport social fare.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
Natalia De la Sota and Juan Manuel Olmos seek to build a federal alternative to Milei
The Córdoba lawmaker met in Córdoba with the Buenos Aires City leader and they agreed on building an opposition proposal centred on federalism, production, work, education, science and technology. The move belongs to a Peronist path that still has no single candidacy.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires teachers accept Kicillof's offer and another strike is defused
Teachers' and state workers' unions accepted a 7% increase over June wages, paid in two stages: 5% in July and 2% in August. The province added commitments on school violence, permanent appointments and reopening talks in September.
Buenos Aires
Court confirms irreversible damage by Atanor to the Paraná River in San Nicolás
The Buenos Aires Supreme Court upheld a ruling against the agrochemical company for pollution with industrial effluents. The decision renews demands for a comprehensive investigation into environmental damage, state controls and the impact on nearby residents.
National
ARA San Juan: one Navy officer convicted and three others acquitted
The Federal Oral Court of Río Gallegos sentenced Claudio Javier Villamide to three years of suspended imprisonment over the tragedy that killed 44 crew members in 2017. Luis López Mazzeo, Héctor Alonso and Hugo Correa were acquitted.
National
European Union steps back from measure affecting Argentine biodiesel
The European Parliament rejected a change that classified soybeans as a high environmental-risk crop. The government and Ciara-CEC welcomed the decision because it preserves a key market for biodiesel and industrial soybean oil.