242.1. The electoral campaign, for the purposes of this Title, is the group of activities carried out by the national political parties, the coalitions and the registered candidates to obtain votes.

242.2. Campaign activities are understood as the public meetings, assemblies, marches and in general all those activities in which the candidates or the spokespersons of the political parties address the electorate to promote their candidacies.

242.3. Electoral propaganda is understood as the group of documents, publications, images, recordings, projections and expressions that the political parties, the registered candidates and their sympathizers produce and spread during the electoral campaign with the purpose of presenting the registered candidates to the citizens.

242.4. Both the electoral propaganda and the campaign activities referred to in the present article should promote the exhibition, development and discussion before the electorate of the programs and actions established by the political parties in their basic documents and, particularly, on the electoral platform that they have registered for the election in question.

242.5. For the effects of the provisions of the eighth paragraph of article 134 of the Constitution, the annual work or governance report of the public servants, as well as the messages that the media disseminates to make them known, will not be considered as propaganda, as long as the dissemination is limited to once a year in the stations and channels with regional coverage corresponding to the geographical scope of responsibility of the public servant and do not exceed seven days before and f ve days after the date on which the report is submitted. The dissemination of these reports cannot under any circumstances have electoral purposes, nor can it be made during the electoral campaign period.