In March 2019, Lacalle Pou officially launched his campaign for the presidential primaries, which were held on June 30 of the same year.[12] He obtained 53.77 percent of the vote, defeating Juan Sartori, Jorge Larrañaga, Enrique Antía and Carlos Iafigliola.[13] Shortly after the victory, the nationalist candidate's campaign team began to draft the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), with Rodrigo Ferrés as the person in charge.[14] It was stated then that the bill would have between 300 and 500 articles and that its content would be based on the government program of the PN.[15] It was criticized from the Broad Front (FA), the Socialist Party (PS) affirmed that the mechanism would be unconstitutional since its use requires an identified pre-existing urgency and not one created "for political or ideological reasons or government priorities".[16]