The Tierra del Fuego Legislature has just dealt the final blow to Governor Gustavo Melella's reformist project . This occurred during the 3rd Ordinary Session , which began late and will continue until Friday night and early Saturday morning. There, the unified opposition secured a supermajority of 11 votes to 3 , forcing the Executive branch, which had issued a total veto decree the previous week, to back down.

The debate was marked by the absence of ruling party legislator Federico Sciurano (FORJA), which reduced government resistance to a mere three votes in the chamber. With this result, the Tierra del Fuego legislature irreversibly buried the reform process that sought to modify 70 articles of the 1991 Constitution without formal debate, technical justification, or explanations to the community.

Immediate notification to the Electoral Court

Beyond consolidating their efforts to override Melella 's veto, the legislators executed a key last-minute legal maneuver. At the request of Legislator Damian Loffler , a final supplementary article was added, in which the Legislature ordered the immediate referral of the ratified law to the Provincial Electoral Court , presided over by Judge Mariel Zanini .

This article has definitive political and legal weight:

At the time of writing, the same aggravated opposition majority was consolidating to advance on two devastating economic fronts for the Government House: the insistence on the law that obliges the daily and immediate trickle of national revenue sharing to the municipalities —ending the discretionary withholding of funds by the Executive— and the insistence on the repeal of the decrees with which Melella removed the gas subsidy from 5800 families .

The future of his administration is increasingly precarious. Because the truth is that, by removing his discretionary control over shared revenue funds and forcing him to maintain subsidies for residential gas, Gustavo Melella 's governance has entered a phase of extreme vulnerability and unprecedented structural crisis. A governor who He has a long weekend ahead of him - in principle -.