227.1. The electoral pre-campaign is understood as the group of actions carried out by the political parties, their members and the pre-candidates for candidacies for elective offices that are properly registered by each party.

227.2. The electoral pre-campaign activities are understood as the public meetings, assemblies, marches and in general those in which the pre-candidates speak to the members, sympathizers, or to the voters in general, with the purpose to obtain their support to be nominated as candidate for an elective office.

227.3. Pre-campaign propaganda is understood as the group of documents, publications, images, recordings, projections and expressions that, during the period established by this Law and the one set out in the respective call, are disseminated by the pre-candidates for candidacies for elective offices with the purpose of making their proposals known. The pre-campaign propaganda should expressly mention, through graphic and sound media, that the person being promoted is a pre-candidate.

227.4. The pre-candidate is the citizen that wants to be nominated by a political party as a candidate for an elective office in the internal selection process of candidates for elective offices, according to this Law and the Statutes of a political party.

227.5. No citizen could participate simultaneously in internal selection processes of candidates for elective of f ces by different political parties, except if they have signed an agreement to participate in a coalition. During the pre-campaigns it is forbidden to hand out utilitarian promotional articles.