(6 Jul 2009)
1. Pull focus to tram approaching on main boulevard
2. Wide shot main boulevard, trams, people
3. People getting off tram
4. Various of woman distributing free newspapers
5. Man carrying his plastic bag on a stick and newspaper in hand
6. Two men at a street corner discussing politics, holding newspaper
7. Various of piles of newspapers showing the percentage the different parties won in the elections
8. Young people in the park
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Calin (no surname given), local resident ++VERBATIM++
"I think it's the same; I can't see a lot of difference, and I hope so the things going better but we see."
10. Newspaper kiosk
11. Woman buying newspaper
12. Various of newspaper headlines about the election result
13. Various of free newspapers being distributed
14. Man sitting on bench and reading newspaper
15. Wide shot promenade in downtown Sofia
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop, young woman (no name given):
"The results were very predictable, I'm not surprised at all and actually I expected this, and... well, whatever; nothing is going to be changed, everything is going to be how we expected, and.... politics in Bulgaria."
17. Close up old man playing the flute
18. Wider shot old man playing the flute sitting on a barrier
STORYLINE:
A right-wing opposition party appeared on Monday to have won Bulgaria's parliamentary election by a wide margin, and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev conceded defeat.
Official election results from Sunday's poll were not expected until later on Monday, but Sofia Mayor Boiko Borisov, the leader of the right-wing Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, said at a news conference on Sunday that he expected to form the country's next government and serve as its prime minister.
On the streets of the capital Sofia, the mood was one of resignation.
Stanishev, whose socialist coalition was hurt by corruption, congratulated the opposition for its victory.
Borisov's party did not appear to win an outright majority, but it may be able to get the support it needs to form a coalition government.
The Alpha Research exit poll indicated the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria won 38.5 percent of the
vote.
The survey placed the governing Socialists second with 18.4 percent, while their junior coalition partner, the mainly Turkish MRF, won 13.5 percent. Alpha Research said the ultra-nationalist Attack Party would finish fourth with 9.2 percent, followed by the right-wing Blue Coalition with 7.5 percent.
A separate exit poll by Sova Harris said Borisov's party won 40.8 percent of the vote, with the Socialists at 17.1
percent and Turkish MRF with 15.2 percent. It said the Attack Party would finish fourth with 8.9 percent, followed
by the Blue Coalition with 6.4 percent.
Some 53 percent of Bulgaria's 6.8 million (m) eligible voters cast ballots, according to the exit polls.
Stanishev's Socialist government has been credited with securing European Union membership for Bulgaria in 2007, but it has widely been blamed for failing to crack down on corruption and improve the quality of life for Bulgaria's 7.6 million (m) people.
Bulgaria is the poorest member of the 27-nation European Union, with an average salary of 300 euros (420 US dollars) a month.
At least 700,000 mostly young and well-educated Bulgarians have left the country over the last two decades for better job opportunities and living standards.
The EU froze millions in aid to Bulgaria last year amid allegations of fraud tolerated by the Socialist-led coalition, which has itself been plagued by scandals.
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