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Buenos Aires
An appeal by the provincial executive suspended the injunction blocking increases of 1.5% to 3.5% for about 1.5 million users. The merits remain unresolved, including the public hearing, national cost components, the social tariff and the system's financial sustainability.
Buenos Aires
The governor said the Senate-approved change would exclude numerous Buenos Aires districts from the benefit and demanded explanations from the lawmakers who supported it. He linked the measure to higher gas bills and to the fiscal constraints facing municipal governments.
La Pampa
Undersecretary Javier Weiz blamed opposition lawmakers for a measure that, by his estimate, would add 50% to gas bills after previous increases. The claim triggered a provincial controversy, although the concrete impact must be established through the rule, its implementation and the applicable tariff schedules.
Buenos Aires
The Province authorized an adjustment of between 1% and 2.4% to distributors' fixed and variable charges. Marcelo Leguizamón and Matías De Urraza called for investment, stronger oversight and automatic compensation for users affected by outages.
Corrientes
The Corrientes provincial senator and former governor warned that lawmakers aligned with the Norte Grande provinces would withhold support for government initiatives until a hot-zone tariff moves forward. The dispute combines electricity costs, regional coordination and congressional bargaining.
Corrientes
Severance payments reached employees on the Litoral corridor at General Belgrano Bridge, Riachuelo and Ituzaingó. The new contracts provide for greater automation, but private concessionaires have not said how many current workers they will hire.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
Gonzalo Alderete Pagés and Florencia Barrientos Paz attributed the end of the restaurant venture to the economic crisis. The venue will remain open throughout September, so this is an announced closure that has not yet taken place.
Santa Cruz
The calculation combines employing firms, business-license cancellations and a decline in independent work, so it does not equal four corporate closures a day. The province has lost between 350 and 400 private employers since November 2023.
National
Martín Llaryora, Maximiliano Pullaro and Rogelio Frigerio met with Diego Santilli to coordinate a common agenda. The meeting addressed road infrastructure, electricity costs for large industrial users, and the tariff regime still discussed in Senate.
Mendoza
Víctor Fayad explained to lawmakers the agreement recognizing ARS 121.282 billion in claims. It includes funds linked to routes 40 and 143 but does not close claims over water, sanitation and irrigation or change the province's road-toll proposal.
Catamarca
The Santa María senator said power bills worsen the difficulties facing households and businesses and blamed national policy. She defended provincial subsidies but gave no amounts, beneficiary figures or new legislative or administrative measure to contain the increases.
Entre Ríos
The province added relief on 2026 taxes, grants, food support, electricity benefits and health care for affected families. It also announced a joint task force with Córdoba and Buenos Aires as the company's crisis spreads across plants in all three jurisdictions.
Buenos Aires
The deputy questioned that users pay the fuel tax and also face new fees on deteriorated routes. She announced that she will seek to extend a collective injunction to demand national investments in Misiones and other provinces of the corridor.
Salta
The Salta governor criticized federal delays in addressing immediate needs. He defended electricity subsidies for hot regions, called for objective criteria and warned that provinces cannot keep taking over road maintenance, medicines and teacher incentives.
Corrientes
Before the governors' summit in Posadas, the Corrientes leader highlighted cooperation with Hugo Passalacqua on tariffs, infrastructure, and regional corridors. He also stated that potential mining investors gave a favorable evaluation, although procedures still remain, and he did not report companies, areas, minerals, or schedule.
Chaco
The Chaco federation stated that the CAME indicator measures local retail stores and not total consumption or digital platform billing. The entity affirmed that the traditional contraction and the growth of e-commerce can coexist because they correspond to different universes.
