The notion of "pre-campaign" of course presupposes that there is a specified campaign period. Some countries, such as the United States, effectively impose no limits on the time of campaigning. Of course, in many systems, there may be little gap between different sets of elections: presidential, legislative, local, or provincial - even, in the case of the European Union, supranational.
But under any electoral system, there are issues that relate to elections and the media that occur, essentially, in the months leading up to elections. These are primarily:
There might also be other pre-campaign tasks such as boundary delimitation, establishing electoral legal frameworks, population censuses, and so forth. The EMB will need to communicate to the public, through the media, on all these issues.
