After 25 articles were eliminated and more than 300 modified, the law was approved by the Senate in the first instance on June 6, 2020,[29] after which it entered the Chamber of Representatives where 32 changes were introduced and it was approved on July 5.[30][31] Finally, the upper house approved its final version on the 8th of the same month with only the votes of the ruling coalition, and the Executive Power promulgated it a day later.[32][33] President Lacalle Pou described it as a "necessary, fair and popular" instrument.[34]