In Uruguay there are two ways to file a referendum appeal against a law before the Electoral Court.[52] In one of them, it requires reaching the adhesions of 25% of the total number of registered voters in a period corresponding to the first year after the promulgation of the law and directly leads to the holding of the referendum.[53] On the other hand, the other route requires reach at least 2% of the total number of registered voters eligible to vote within a period of 150 days after the enactment of the law and gives rise to the holding of an election with a non-compulsory vote known as a pre-referendum, in which if 25% vote affirmatively, a referendum must be held.[54] Depending on the time required to collect signatures in each case, the first form is popularly known as "the long one" and the second as "the short one".[55] At first, both the PIT-CNT and the Intersocial proposed to follow the "long way".[56][57] On the Broad Front, this issue generated divisions, since the Communist Party (PC) and the Socialist Party supported the "long way", but other sectors such as the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP), the Uruguay Assembly (AU) and the Renovating Force (FR) preferred the "short way" given the risk implied by the high percentage of signatures required by the other mechanism.[58]