Argentina
The bill to authorize new mayoral reelections remains stalled in the Buenos Aires Senate
The initiative introduced by a senator close to Axel Kicillof remains stuck before moving to another committee and has seen no progress. According to La Nacion, the process was caught up in Peronist infighting and differences with the massismo.
The bill to once again allow unlimited reelection of mayors, provincial lawmakers and municipal officials in the province of Buenos Aires remains stalled in the Buenos Aires Senate, according to La Nacion.
The initiative was introduced last year by Senator Ayelén Durán and remains in the General Legislation Committee, chaired by Germán Lago, a leader aligned with Governor Axel Kicillof. According to that newspaper, nearly two months ago, on July 29, Malena Galmarini, head of the Political Reform and Electoral Regime Committee, asked for the bill to be referred to that committee, but that has still not happened.
Still according to La Nacion, in the Kicillof camp in the Senate they say they have no details on the reasons why the bill has not yet been sent to Political Reform. The outlet added that Lago did not respond to inquiries on the matter.
The proposal promoted by Durán amends Article 3 of Decree-Law 6769/1958 to establish that mayors and councilors serve four-year terms and may be reelected. La Nacion noted that the measure would benefit 63 mayors from different parties by allowing them to run again in their municipalities.
The bill also became entangled in the Peronist internal dispute. La Nacion recalled that the massismo maintains a position against indefinite reelection, while from the cristinismo they hinted in the Buenos Aires Legislature that they could support the Kicillof camp’s bill.
In that context, the newspaper detailed that Galmarini requested the transfer of seven bills linked to electoral changes and stated in a note addressed to Lago that they had been mistakenly referred to the committee he chairs. Among them, she included the reelection bill.
The legislative outlook also does not favor the Buenos Aires government. According to La Nacion, the bill would need 23 votes in the provincial Senate, which has 46 seats, and the governor could only reach that number with support from outside Peronism, since within the ruling bloc there are three massismo senators who reject the proposal.
Meanwhile, last year the cristinismo promoted another bill that did not include mayors, but did authorize new reelections for lawmakers, councilors and school board members. That initiative passed the Senate on June 25, 2025, with a 22-22 tie broken by Vice Governor Verónica Magario, although it later did not advance in the Chamber of Deputies.
Durán’s bill, by contrast, never obtained a committee report or reached the floor. For now, its consideration remains blocked in committee.
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