(10 Oct 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Pan from Palace of Culture building to Warsaw train station
2. Various people at bus station reading newspapers
3. Wide shot newspapers stand
4. Newspaper headline reading "Neck and Neck" with pictures of Tusk and Kaczynski
5. Newspaper headline reading "35,2%, 33,6%, First round for Tusk" with pictures of Tusk and Kaczynski
6. Newspaper headline reading "Round for Tusk", with picture of Tusk celebrating last night
7. People in street with tram passing by
8. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Vox pop
"Personally I'm happy although I would have preferred the person who won (Tusk) to win the elections after the first round."
9. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Vox pop
"Yes, I believe Tusk will win (the second round)"
10. Man reading newspaper
11. SOUNDBITE: Vox pop (Polish)
"I expected better results in favour of Tusk, the straight victory of Tusk."
12. Woman distributing newspapers with cars passing by
13. SOUNDBITE: Vox pop (Polish)
"I think this is the right choice. The winner is the person I voted for so I am glad."
14. People in street taking newspaper from street seller
15. Wide shot Warsaw street scene
SCRIPT:
Pro-market politician Donald Tusk and conservative Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski headed for a new phase on Monday in their struggle for Poland's presidency after neither won outright victory in a first round of voting.
According to the first returns, Tusk, the smooth-mannered deputy parliament speaker, gained an edge over the outspoken Kaczynski in Sunday's vote.
Tusk vowed to take his campaign next to small towns and villages to win over rural voters ahead of the runoff election Oct. 23.
With 91.5 percent of the vote counted, 35.8 percent of voters had backed Tusk, while 33.3 percent voted for Kaczynski. With no candidate surpassing 50 percent, the result forces a second round between the two.
Poland's electoral commission said final results would be released on Monday afternoon.
The Polish daily Fakt said on its front page that the real fight for presidency "will start now."
Gazeta Wyborcza, another daily, said that election teams will now "pull out their knives."
The race in the formerly communist country centred on the Europe-wide issue of just how far to go in sacrificing welfare state protections for the promise of an economy with fewer social benefits but faster growth and job creation.
Tusk wants a 15-percent flat tax rate on personal and corporate earnings, while Kaczynski favours a greater role for the state in protecting the social safety net and
promoting Roman Catholic values.
He wants tax cuts, but would keep the system under which high earners pay more -and would give deductions for big families.
Poland's jobless rate of nearly 18 percent is the highest in the 25-nation European Union.
The two candidates share roots in the anti-communist Solidarity movement.
However, their increasingly bitter campaign risks complicating the ongoing negotiations between the two men's parties to form a new coalition government, which will be led by Kaczynski's Law and Justice party.
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