Patricia Bullrich and Victoria Villarruel met on Friday in Congress to agree on Senate operations during extraordinary sessions. The Security Minister, who will assume as senator and head of the La Libertad Avanza bloc, requested priority for government projects. The vice president promised collaboration in her institutional role.
The meeting, which lasted over an hour in Villarruel's office in the Senate, took place ahead of the parliamentary turnover and after months of internal tensions in the official bloc. Bullrich, who will resign from her Security post days before her swearing-in as senator on December 4, sought to rebuild ties and demanded that Executive projects receive preferential space on the extraordinary sessions agenda, starting December 10.
Upon leaving, Bullrich summarized the encounter to the press: “We talked about the need for the official agenda to have a preferential space. It is our responsibility as the LLA bloc, as government, to gather political wills to build a majority and that is what we will do.” She added: “We will do everything we have to do so that the Executive's projects come out.”
Villarruel, in charge of the Senate presidency, guaranteed institutional support: “I have a position that is known to all the workers in the house and to all the senators. I like to work in a climate where everyone can feel comfortable and that is what I will aim for with the new additions to the chamber.” She emphasized: “Every senator will have the doors of my office open, we will collaborate in everything we can so they feel comfortable. They have been elected by the Argentine people and it is not my function to discuss their representativeness, whether Patricia Bullrich or others.”
The La Libertad Avanza libertarian bloc will grow from 7 to 20 senators, requiring a new distribution of forces to articulate majorities for economic, tax, and labor reforms. Parliamentary sources indicated that the vice president will support, but majority building will fall to Bullrich. The meeting, days after Bullrich publicly asked Villarruel to “help us and not boycott us,” is seen as a key gesture of détente for the legislative summer.
Minutes later, Bullrich posted on X: “In the meeting with Vice President Victoria Villarruel we talked about the need to undertake serious institutional work so that the Government's agenda has a clear space in the Senate. Our bloc goes from 7 to 20 senators and we must build a solid and orderly majority so that the projects the President needs can be discussed and voted on. The Vice President showed herself totally willing to collaborate within her institutional role.”