ELECTIONS 2027 · ELECTORAL REFORM
PASO 2027: decisive weeks for governors and Casa Rosada, with the opposition demanding that the primaries continue
The government stopped the progress of the electoral reform in the Senate because it still does not have the 37 votes necessary to suspend the primaries. While negotiating with the provincial governors, Buenos Aires Peronism, radical senators and the PRO resist the change.
✍️ By Redacción Política | 📅 Buenos Aires, Monday, October 19, 2026 | 🔄 Updated at 3:58 p.m.
⏱️ Reading time: 8 min (1,738 words)
⚡ KEY POINTS
🧮 Numbers: La Libertad Avanza has 21 senators of its own and needs 37 votes; today it does not even add the support that it considers firm.
🤝 Governors: five radicals gave signals compatible with suspending the PASO in 2027, but without a blank check; they demand guarantees, especially in the 2027 Budget.
⏸️ Pause: the Casa Rosada will not reconvene the Constitutional Affairs Committee until agreements are reached and is considering extending parliamentary activity in December.
🗳️ Opposition: the Buenos Aires government defends the PASO and in the Senate there are objections from Carolina Losada and the PRO bloc.
⚖️ Electoral justice: the National Electoral Chamber asked that any change be defined in advance.
BUENOS AIRES.— The discussion about the future of the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) has entered its most sensitive stretch. About ten months before the primaries scheduled for August 2027, the government of Javier Milei paused its offensive in the Senate because it still does not gather the necessary votes: the Casa Rosada decided to stop the treatment of the political reform until agreements are reached with governors, radicals, PRO leaders and provincial blocs, according to BAE Negocios.
The brake contrasts with the climate at the beginning of the month. After Argentina Week in Paris, where Milei traveled with 13 governors, the Casa Rosada accelerated talks with five radical leaders and aspired to achieve the half sanction in the Senate before the end of October, according to Gente de Salta. Today the panorama is more complex: the chief of staff, Diego Santilli, maintains that the reform will come out, but the numbers in the upper house have not yet closed.
On the other hand, sectors of the opposition are demanding that the primaries continue. The Buenos Aires government of Axel Kicillof ratified its defense of the system on Monday and, in the Senate, the radical Carolina Losada and the PRO legislators show reservations. The next few weeks are at stake in that crossing.
📷 Radical governors Juan Pablo Valdés, Leandro Zdero, Maximiliano Pullaro, Alfredo Cornejo and Carlos Sadir, protagonists of the negotiation for the PASO. Photo: Infobae. See original image
📉 The Senate's numbers: far from 37
The electoral reform requires an absolute majority in both chambers and, in the Senate, the key number is 37 affirmative votes. La Libertad Avanza starts from a base of 21 senators of its own and adds the support that it considers firmest among the provincial blocs. The problem appears when completing the rest: according to leaders who participated in a political meeting at the Casa Rosada, when only the safe endorsements were counted, the count was far from the goal.
A ruling party leader who follows the negotiations summarized the instability of the adhesions: the votes "come and go." Sources consulted by BAE Negocios describe promises of support, but few closed commitments, and warn that several governors are demanding electoral definitions before ordering their senators to accompany the initiative.
Among the endorsements that the ruling party notes are the missionaries Carlos Arce and Sonia Rojas Decut (linked to Governor Hugo Passalacqua), Flavia Royón from Salta (close to Gustavo Sáenz), Carolina Moisés from Jujuy and Guillermo Andrada from Catamarca, Raúl Jalil's right-hand man. However, within the Senate, doubts persist about the final behavior of these legislators, who depend in part on the internal Peronism and the electoral agreements of 2027.
🤝 Governors: support with conditions
The provincial governors are the center of the official strategy. The negotiation is led by the secretary general of the Presidency, Karina Milei; the chief of staff, Diego Santilli; the president of the libertarian bloc in the Senate, Patricia Bullrich; and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem. But, as they point out in the upper house, a public definition of a governor does not automatically translate into the vote of all the senators in their province.
📷 Javier Milei and governors during Argentina Week in Paris, where the talks for the PASO accelerated. Photo: Infobae. See original image
Radicals: a wink with nuances
According to Infobae's survey, none of the five UCR governors rejects that the national PASO be left out of the 2027 calendar, although they did not offer a blank check:
• Juan Pablo Valdés (Corrientes): he is the closest to Milei's original position. Asked about eliminating the national primaries, he replied that "it would not be far-fetched."
• Carlos Sadir (Jujuy): It would accompany a new suspension, but not the definitive elimination of the mechanism.
• Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe): he supports suspending the national elections because they were little used and involve a high expense, although he defends the PASO in his province. He was the only one of the five who did not travel to Paris.
• Leandro Zdero (Chaco): backed the suspension after meeting with Santilli in late September; his province has already suspended local primaries for 2027.
• Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza): he values the instrument when there is internal competition, but questions a national election that, without rivals in the formulas, works like a great preliminary poll.
The rest of the provincial map
According to a review by El Eco de Tandil and Plan B Noticias, the governors of Catamarca (Raúl Jalil), Neuquén (Rolando Figueroa), Chaco (Leandro Zdero), Corrientes (Juan Pablo Valdés) and Chubut (Ignacio Torres) are in favor of suspending or eliminating the PASO. Those of Salta (Gustavo Sáenz), Misiones (Hugo Passalacqua), Mendoza (Alfredo Cornejo) and Córdoba (Martín Llaryora) could be added.
In Tucumán, on the other hand, Governor Osvaldo Jaldo collaborated with the ruling party in key votes, but the senators of his space convey a critical position on eliminating the primaries.
The price of the agreements
The 2027 Budget is the axis in which the governors seek to ensure in writing the funds they need, according to Mirador Provincial. Several governors proposed enabling the collectors, an option that La Libertad Avanza discarded. Another alternative that transpired, attributed to Karina Milei, consists of agreements so that the libertarian ruling party does not present candidates who compete with the provincial ruling parties in certain districts in exchange for moving forward with the elimination, according to Opinando San Nicolás.
🏛️ From elimination to suspension: what the Government is looking for
The original proposal proposed eliminating the PASO definitively: for the Executive, they would cease to be an election organized and financed by the State to become an internal instance of each party, as TN24 detailed. But parliamentary difficulties forced the ruling party to focus on a more limited alternative: suspending them only for 2027, a path that was already traveled in 2025 with Law 27,783. The project also incorporates a box to vote on the complete list in the Single Paper Ballot.
Milei described them as "immoral" and maintained that they force taxpayers to finance the internal disputes of the parties. In the Casa Rosada they add an economic argument: a national primary extends political uncertainty and can anticipate episodes of volatility, with the precedent of 2019. Santilli estimates the spending of the primaries at about USD 200 million and assures that Milei will win "with or without PASO," according to La Unión Digital.
Infobae's analysis adds a political reading: Milei would reach the election year without a relevant internal dispute, while Peronism discusses leaderships, alliances and candidacies, and without primaries it would lose an institutional tool to sort out those differences.
🗳️ The opposition demands that the PASO continue
Buenos Aires Government Minister Carlos Bianco on Monday defended the continuity of the primaries and affirmed that Peronism assumed the commitment to sustain them as a mechanism to resolve candidacies within the fronts. For Kicillof's official, the change seeks something very concrete: "They want to prevent the opposition from organizing so that Milei is reelected," according to Infobae. Bianco went so far as to describe it as a crime to modify the rules to favor a political space.
📷 Axel Kicillof and Carlos Bianco, in the conference room of the Buenos Aires Government House (file image). Photo: Infobae. See original image
Bianco also questioned the official arguments with data from the Buenos Aires experience: he said that in last year's provincial elections more than 8.6 million votes were cast and 11 infractions of electoral legislation were registered, and that organizing those elections cost $85,000 million, an amount that, according to his projection, would be doubled with a national vote with a Single Paper Ballot. His conclusion: a reform of the electoral system should make it more transparent, more economical or more effective, not serve to win an election.
The resistance is not only Peronist. In the Senate, Carolina Losada publicly expressed her rejection of eliminating the PASO and recalled that she came to the bench through that mechanism; her Santa Fe bloc colleague Eduardo Galaretto also generates doubts in the ruling party, and other radicals, such as Daniel Kroneberger and Flavio Fama, have not yet taken a position. The votes of the PRO bloc headed by Martín Goerling are considered decisive, and the non-Kirchnerist Peronists Carlos Espínola and Alejandra Vigo did not publicly pledge their support.
⚖️ The electoral clock and the warning of Justice
At the beginning of September, the National Electoral Chamber issued an extraordinary agreement in which it asked Congress that any modification of the electoral, party or financing regime be sanctioned sufficiently in advance. The court warned that altering the rules in the middle of the electoral process can generate more harm than benefits and recalled the experience of 2025, when Congress suspended the PASO. According to Agensur, the electoral justice did not ask for the reforms to be postponed: on the contrary, it demanded that they be defined in time because the margin is shortening.
🔮 What to watch in the coming weeks
With the 2027 Budget still pending, the Government is already evaluating extending parliamentary activity during December to gain time and try again. These are the fronts that focus attention:
• The Radical senators: if the pronouncements of the five governors translate into concrete votes, or if Losada, Galaretto and others maintain their independence.
• The PRO bloc in the Senate: its position can tip the scales in either direction.
• The provincial agreements: Misiones, Salta, Jujuy and Catamarca, where the promises are not yet closed commitments.
• The 2027 Budget: funds are the bargaining chip of the negotiation with the presidents.
• The internal Peronism: the behavior of several senators that the ruling party considers possible depends on its evolution.
Possible scenarios (analysis of this wording based on what has been reported): a late agreement that allows a session to be held in December; a pragmatic solution that limits the change to suspension for 2027; or the absence of reform, in which case the PASO would remain in force. In the Casa Rosada, one sector relativizes the impact of an eventual parliamentary defeat and maintains that Milei maintains electoral competitiveness even with primaries.
❓ Frequently asked questions about the PASO 2027
What are the PASO?
These are the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries: previous elections in which the parties and alliances define their candidacies for the general elections, with the vote of the entire authorized registry.
How many votes does the government need to suspend or eliminate them?
Absolute majority in both chambers. In the Senate, 37 affirmative votes; La Libertad Avanza has 21 senators of its own.
What is the difference between eliminating and suspending the PASO?
Eliminating them implies a permanent change in the system. Suspending them means that they are not held in a certain electoral round, as happened in 2025, without repealing the mechanism.
When would the PASO 2027 be if the law is not modified?
They are scheduled for August 2027, before the general elections.
How much do primaries cost?
The figures are discussed. Santilli spoke of about USD 200 million; in the Province of Buenos Aires they maintain that the cost of organizing elections with a Single Paper Ballot would be higher than the current one.
📚 Sources
• BAE Negocios — The ruling party does not get the votes to eliminate the PASO
• Infobae — Kicillof's government demands to maintain the PASO
• Infobae — With the wink of the five radical governors, the Casa Rosada rushes the negotiation
• El Eco de Tandil — The Casa Rosada seeks votes to eliminate the PASO
• Plan B News — The Casa Rosada seeks votes but faces resistance from its allies
• Mirador Provincial — The Government Accelerates Agreements with Governors
• People of Salta — The Government Accelerates the Pact with the Radical Governors
• The Digital Union — Santilli assured that the electoral reform will advance
• Agensur — The National Electoral Chamber warns of delays in advancing on eventual reforms
• TN24 — Electoral reform: the government is considering eliminating the PASO or suspending them again
Note prepared with information published by the aforementioned media until 19/10/2026. The negotiation is ongoing and the data may change. The photographs are the property of their authors and media of origin and are linked for informational purposes.
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ELECTIONS 2027 · ELECTORAL REFORM
PASO 2027: decisive weeks for governors and Casa Rosada, with the opposition demanding that the primaries continue
The government stopped the progress of the electoral reform in the Senate because it still does not have the 37 votes necessary to suspend the primaries. While negotiating with the provincial governors, Buenos Aires Peronism, radical senators and the PRO resist the change.
✍️ By Redacción Política | 📅 Buenos Aires, Monday, October 19, 2026 | 🔄 Updated at 3:58 p.m.
⏱️ Reading time: 8 min (1,738 words)
⚡ KEY POINTS
🧮 Numbers: La Libertad Avanza has 21 senators of its own and needs 37 votes; today it does not even add the support that it considers firm.
🤝 Governors: five radicals gave signals compatible with suspending the PASO in 2027, but without a blank check; they demand guarantees, especially in the 2027 Budget.
⏸️ Pause: the Casa Rosada will not reconvene the Constitutional Affairs Committee until agreements are reached and is considering extending parliamentary activity in December.
🗳️ Opposition: the Buenos Aires government defends the PASO and in the Senate there are objections from Carolina Losada and the PRO bloc.
⚖️ Electoral justice: the National Electoral Chamber asked that any change be defined in advance.
BUENOS AIRES.— The discussion about the future of the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) has entered its most sensitive stretch. About ten months before the primaries scheduled for August 2027, the government of Javier Milei paused its offensive in the Senate because it still does not gather the necessary votes: the Casa Rosada decided to stop the treatment of the political reform until agreements are reached with governors, radicals, PRO leaders and provincial blocs, according to BAE Negocios.
The brake contrasts with the climate at the beginning of the month. After Argentina Week in Paris, where Milei traveled with 13 governors, the Casa Rosada accelerated talks with five radical leaders and aspired to achieve the half sanction in the Senate before the end of October, according to Gente de Salta. Today the panorama is more complex: the chief of staff, Diego Santilli, maintains that the reform will come out, but the numbers in the upper house have not yet closed.
On the other hand, sectors of the opposition are demanding that the primaries continue. The Buenos Aires government of Axel Kicillof ratified its defense of the system on Monday and, in the Senate, the radical Carolina Losada and the PRO legislators show reservations. The next few weeks are at stake in that crossing.
📷 Radical governors Juan Pablo Valdés, Leandro Zdero, Maximiliano Pullaro, Alfredo Cornejo and Carlos Sadir, protagonists of the negotiation for the PASO. Photo: Infobae. See original image
📉 The Senate's numbers: far from 37
The electoral reform requires an absolute majority in both chambers and, in the Senate, the key number is 37 affirmative votes. La Libertad Avanza starts from a base of 21 senators of its own and adds the support that it considers firmest among the provincial blocs. The problem appears when completing the rest: according to leaders who participated in a political meeting at the Casa Rosada, when only the safe endorsements were counted, the count was far from the goal.
A ruling party leader who follows the negotiations summarized the instability of the adhesions: the votes "come and go." Sources consulted by BAE Negocios describe promises of support, but few closed commitments, and warn that several governors are demanding electoral definitions before ordering their senators to accompany the initiative.
Among the endorsements that the ruling party notes are the missionaries Carlos Arce and Sonia Rojas Decut (linked to Governor Hugo Passalacqua), Flavia Royón from Salta (close to Gustavo Sáenz), Carolina Moisés from Jujuy and Guillermo Andrada from Catamarca, Raúl Jalil's right-hand man. However, within the Senate, doubts persist about the final behavior of these legislators, who depend in part on the internal Peronism and the electoral agreements of 2027.
🤝 Governors: support with conditions
The provincial governors are the center of the official strategy. The negotiation is led by the secretary general of the Presidency, Karina Milei; the chief of staff, Diego Santilli; the president of the libertarian bloc in the Senate, Patricia Bullrich; and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem. But, as they point out in the upper house, a public definition of a governor does not automatically translate into the vote of all the senators in their province.
📷 Javier Milei and governors during Argentina Week in Paris, where the talks for the PASO accelerated. Photo: Infobae. See original image
Radicals: a wink with nuances
According to Infobae's survey, none of the five UCR governors rejects that the national PASO be left out of the 2027 calendar, although they did not offer a blank check:
• Juan Pablo Valdés (Corrientes): he is the closest to Milei's original position. Asked about eliminating the national primaries, he replied that "it would not be far-fetched."
• Carlos Sadir (Jujuy): It would accompany a new suspension, but not the definitive elimination of the mechanism.
• Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe): he supports suspending the national elections because they were little used and involve a high expense, although he defends the PASO in his province. He was the only one of the five who did not travel to Paris.
• Leandro Zdero (Chaco): backed the suspension after meeting with Santilli in late September; his province has already suspended local primaries for 2027.
• Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza): he values the instrument when there is internal competition, but questions a national election that, without rivals in the formulas, works like a great preliminary poll.
The rest of the provincial map
According to a review by El Eco de Tandil and Plan B Noticias, the governors of Catamarca (Raúl Jalil), Neuquén (Rolando Figueroa), Chaco (Leandro Zdero), Corrientes (Juan Pablo Valdés) and Chubut (Ignacio Torres) are in favor of suspending or eliminating the PASO. Those of Salta (Gustavo Sáenz), Misiones (Hugo Passalacqua), Mendoza (Alfredo Cornejo) and Córdoba (Martín Llaryora) could be added.
In Tucumán, on the other hand, Governor Osvaldo Jaldo collaborated with the ruling party in key votes, but the senators of his space convey a critical position on eliminating the primaries.
The price of the agreements
The 2027 Budget is the axis in which the governors seek to ensure in writing the funds they need, according to Mirador Provincial. Several governors proposed enabling the collectors, an option that La Libertad Avanza discarded. Another alternative that transpired, attributed to Karina Milei, consists of agreements so that the libertarian ruling party does not present candidates who compete with the provincial ruling parties in certain districts in exchange for moving forward with the elimination, according to Opinando San Nicolás.
🏛️ From elimination to suspension: what the Government is looking for
The original proposal proposed eliminating the PASO definitively: for the Executive, they would cease to be an election organized and financed by the State to become an internal instance of each party, as TN24 detailed. But parliamentary difficulties forced the ruling party to focus on a more limited alternative: suspending them only for 2027, a path that was already traveled in 2025 with Law 27,783. The project also incorporates a box to vote on the complete list in the Single Paper Ballot.
Milei described them as "immoral" and maintained that they force taxpayers to finance the internal disputes of the parties. In the Casa Rosada they add an economic argument: a national primary extends political uncertainty and can anticipate episodes of volatility, with the precedent of 2019. Santilli estimates the spending of the primaries at about USD 200 million and assures that Milei will win "with or without PASO," according to La Unión Digital.
Infobae's analysis adds a political reading: Milei would reach the election year without a relevant internal dispute, while Peronism discusses leaderships, alliances and candidacies, and without primaries it would lose an institutional tool to sort out those differences.
🗳️ The opposition demands that the PASO continue
Buenos Aires Government Minister Carlos Bianco on Monday defended the continuity of the primaries and affirmed that Peronism assumed the commitment to sustain them as a mechanism to resolve candidacies within the fronts. For Kicillof's official, the change seeks something very concrete: "They want to prevent the opposition from organizing so that Milei is reelected," according to Infobae. Bianco went so far as to describe it as a crime to modify the rules to favor a political space.
📷 Axel Kicillof and Carlos Bianco, in the conference room of the Buenos Aires Government House (file image). Photo: Infobae. See original image
Bianco also questioned the official arguments with data from the Buenos Aires experience: he said that in last year's provincial elections more than 8.6 million votes were cast and 11 infractions of electoral legislation were registered, and that organizing those elections cost $85,000 million, an amount that, according to his projection, would be doubled with a national vote with a Single Paper Ballot. His conclusion: a reform of the electoral system should make it more transparent, more economical or more effective, not serve to win an election.
The resistance is not only Peronist. In the Senate, Carolina Losada publicly expressed her rejection of eliminating the PASO and recalled that she came to the bench through that mechanism; her Santa Fe bloc colleague Eduardo Galaretto also generates doubts in the ruling party, and other radicals, such as Daniel Kroneberger and Flavio Fama, have not yet taken a position. The votes of the PRO bloc headed by Martín Goerling are considered decisive, and the non-Kirchnerist Peronists Carlos Espínola and Alejandra Vigo did not publicly pledge their support.
⚖️ The electoral clock and the warning of Justice
At the beginning of September, the National Electoral Chamber issued an extraordinary agreement in which it asked Congress that any modification of the electoral, party or financing regime be sanctioned sufficiently in advance. The court warned that altering the rules in the middle of the electoral process can generate more harm than benefits and recalled the experience of 2025, when Congress suspended the PASO. According to Agensur, the electoral justice did not ask for the reforms to be postponed: on the contrary, it demanded that they be defined in time because the margin is shortening.
🔮 What to watch in the coming weeks
With the 2027 Budget still pending, the Government is already evaluating extending parliamentary activity during December to gain time and try again. These are the fronts that focus attention:
• The Radical senators: if the pronouncements of the five governors translate into concrete votes, or if Losada, Galaretto and others maintain their independence.
• The PRO bloc in the Senate: its position can tip the scales in either direction.
• The provincial agreements: Misiones, Salta, Jujuy and Catamarca, where the promises are not yet closed commitments.
• The 2027 Budget: funds are the bargaining chip of the negotiation with the presidents.
• The internal Peronism: the behavior of several senators that the ruling party considers possible depends on its evolution.
Possible scenarios (analysis of this wording based on what has been reported): a late agreement that allows a session to be held in December; a pragmatic solution that limits the change to suspension for 2027; or the absence of reform, in which case the PASO would remain in force. In the Casa Rosada, one sector relativizes the impact of an eventual parliamentary defeat and maintains that Milei maintains electoral competitiveness even with primaries.
❓ Frequently asked questions about the PASO 2027
What are the PASO?
These are the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries: previous elections in which the parties and alliances define their candidacies for the general elections, with the vote of the entire authorized registry.
How many votes does the government need to suspend or eliminate them?
Absolute majority in both chambers. In the Senate, 37 affirmative votes; La Libertad Avanza has 21 senators of its own.
What is the difference between eliminating and suspending the PASO?
Eliminating them implies a permanent change in the system. Suspending them means that they are not held in a certain electoral round, as happened in 2025, without repealing the mechanism.
When would the PASO 2027 be if the law is not modified?
They are scheduled for August 2027, before the general elections.
How much do primaries cost?
The figures are discussed. Santilli spoke of about USD 200 million; in the Province of Buenos Aires they maintain that the cost of organizing elections with a Single Paper Ballot would be higher than the current one.
📚 Sources
• BAE Negocios — The ruling party does not get the votes to eliminate the PASO
• Infobae — Kicillof's government demands to maintain the PASO
• Infobae — With the wink of the five radical governors, the Casa Rosada rushes the negotiation
• El Eco de Tandil — The Casa Rosada seeks votes to eliminate the PASO
• Plan B News — The Casa Rosada seeks votes but faces resistance from its allies
• Mirador Provincial — The Government Accelerates Agreements with Governors
• People of Salta — The Government Accelerates the Pact with the Radical Governors
• The Digital Union — Santilli assured that the electoral reform will advance
• Agensur — The National Electoral Chamber warns of delays in advancing on eventual reforms
• TN24 — Electoral reform: the government is considering eliminating the PASO or suspending them again
Note prepared with information published by the aforementioned media until 19/10/2026. The negotiation is ongoing and the data may change. The photographs are the property of their authors and media of origin and are linked for informational purposes.
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PASO 2027: decisive weeks for governors and Casa Rosada
- 19/10/2026 » 20:23 by cronywell
