Liliana Franco President Javier Miei is giving the final touches to the speech he is set to deliver Saturday at 9 p.m. to open the 2025 regular sessions of Congress. Government sources told Herald sister publication Ambito that the president is expected to announce over 30 bills he intends to send to the legislative branch.
The sources added that these initiatives will not be large-scale projects like the state-reform Ley Bases but rather a series of bills aimed at “important and specific matters related to government management.”
The speech is expected to last close to 45 minutes.
Main points of the president’s presentation
Following the results the government achieved last year, specifically fiscal balance, the lowering of inflation and the recovery of economic activity, the president’s advisors say his speech will “center on government management” and not so much on announcements.
Some issues are still being defined, however, and it’s possible that the presentation could include a new call to national unity. In addition to offering details on the situation he received from the past administration as well as his initial decisions as president, Milei used his 2024 speech to ask provincial governors to sign a list of points of agreement known as the May Pact.
The Executive Branch has invited many special guests to the opening session, including 70 ambassadors who will be seated in two boxes overlooking the main floor in Congress.
Many opposition members have already announced that they will not attend. Following a botched preparatory session on Monday afternoon in which the Senate was originally set to elect its authorities, Senator José Mayans, who is the Unión por la Patria (UxP) bloc leader, informed everyone that the members of his bloc will not be present on Saturday.
UxP deputies are debating what they will do. A final decision is expected this Thursday, but sources say that those who have made their position public favor taking the same position as the senators. The leftist sector is also deliberating whether to go, and deputies from the Democracia para Siempre and Encuentro Federal blocs are also expected to skip the event.
These are not the only sectors currently at odds with the government, as center-right party PRO, their main ally in Congress, does not approve of Milei naming Judge Ariel Lijo to the Supreme Court by decree.
