An Argentine federal court on Thursday suspended President Javier Milei’s decree that dissolved the Dirección Nacional de Vialidad, the state agency in charge of planning, building and maintaining the country’s national road network. Judge Martina Isabel Forns granted an injunction that freezes the measure for six months, citing laws that protect workers’ rights and collective bargaining agreements. The ruling responds to a petition from the Sindicato de Empleados de Vialidad Nacional (SEVINA), which argued that abolishing the agency would lead to forced transfers and layoffs. Forns ordered the government to refrain from implementing any step derived from Decree 461/2025, including staff relocations or the elimination of organizational units. Milei had announced the shutdown on 7 July as one of his final acts under the special legislative powers that expire this week. The administration portrayed Vialidad as a symbol of public-works corruption and said it planned to auction 9,120 kilometres of highways while transferring remaining functions to the Ministry of Economy and a new concessions regulator. Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said the government will appeal the decision, signalling a fresh confrontation between the libertarian leader’s drive to shrink the state and the judiciary’s oversight of labour and administrative law.