Governor Gerardo Morales, unable to run for a new term, was still popular and the election was won by his minister Carlos Sadir.

The demonstrators erected walls of stones over the roads to strengthen the block, and intended to stay the whole night despite the cold climate.

[4][5] Morales liberated the detained people and canceled the amendment of two articles related to indigenous rights, trying to negotiate with the demonstrators.

On July 9, a tourist, Virginia Flores Gómez, died after being stranded in a bus in a roadblock on Route 9 near the town of Abra Pampa.

[12] At the end of July a group of opponents of the reform marched from Jujuy to Buenos Aires to demonstrate in front of the National Congress, in the self-proclaimed "Third Malón de la Paz" (after similar initiatives in 1946 and 2006).

Morales mocked the term "peaceful" and detailed the criminal records of a number of detained demonstrators, as well as posting a video of them throwing rocks at the police.

[18] Presidential candidate Javier Milei opined instead that Morales had been too permissive and that the actions of the protests should have been halted long before they turned into vandalism.

[21] This became part of a judiciary case against the detained protesters for assault, resistance to authority, injuring, aggravated damage, fire, and the attack to the legislature.

[24] The statement was criticized by diplomats from Juntos por el Cambio who said that it was based on biased and unchecked sources and that the IACHR has not been present in Jujuy during the events.

[26] The president gave a conference and announced that he had instructed Martín Soria, minister of justice, to denounce the amendment to the constitution of Jujuy as unconstitutional.