President Milei's party, La Libertad Avanza, has asked for a session of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Congress, on Wednesday, October 21 at noon. That is six days after the opposition's own session on October 15, where it wants to overturn one of Milei's decrees.
The agenda copies two items from the opposition's call: extending the disability emergency and a response to household debt arrears. It adds a private-property bill, a system to trace high-risk medicines and a penal code change on rural vandalism, according to the request. The overlap is meant to draw allied lawmakers away from the October 15 session, which the governing party expects to fall short of a quorum. The request came Friday, the day the Supreme Court temporarily restored limits on foreign ownership of farmland.
That order weakened one of the opposition's main arguments. La Nación reported that some deputies count 115 votes even in the most favorable tally, 14 short of the 129 needed. An earlier count put the figure at 122 to 124 before the ruling. One opposition lawmaker said undecided deputies from provincial blocs, whose governors do not want the whole decree to fall, now have a way out.
La Libertad Avanza also plans to add limits on foreign land purchases to the private-property bill, which the Senate has already passed. Two committees, Constitutional Affairs and General Legislation, meet on Wednesday, October 14 at 4 p.m. to take it up. Changing the text would send the bill back to the Senate.
The opposition is not backing down. A Unión por la Patria source said the Court's injunction "can fall at any moment" and the decree must be overturned "so that land sales do not depend on a court measure." Opposition blocs also say they will press the disability and debt bills even if the vote on the decree fails to materialize, and a university march is set for the same day.
The opposition session is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Thursday, October 15.
