(13 Mar 2010) HEADLINE: Iraq''s PM leads in early Baghdad vote count
CAPTION: A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital and a Shiite province in the south. (March 13)
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Election results continue to trickle in from Iraq where the latest tally shows Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki''s political coalition leading in the capital and a Shiite province in the south.
Voting took place about a week ago and the final numbers are slow in coming.
So far officials have released partial results from eleven different regions and the prime minister''s party is leading in five of them.
Baghdad accounts for 70 of parliament''s 325 seats and would go a long way toward deciding who will be tasked with forming a government.
It''s not clear exactly what percentage of the votes had been counted so far and officials have not said when they expect all the counting to be done.
Still, al-Maliki is showing signs he will end up the winner and he has already begun meeting with political rivals in early efforts to form a coalition government.
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1. Various of al Rusafa counting and sorting centre in Baghdad
2. Various of Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) employees sat at computers
3. Employees removing ballots from box
4. Various of counting
5. Wide of counting and sorting centre
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein al Taie, media director of al Rusafa counting and sorting centre, Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC):
"We reached sixty per cent today (of the total number of votes to be counted) which represents approximately 20,000 votes, and this percentage is good and we will complete the rest."
7. Various of man looking at various tallies posted on wall
8. Wide of spokesman for IHEC Qassim al-Aboudi on podium
9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Qassim al-Aboudi, spokesman of IHEC:
"The partial results of three provinces; Baghdad 18 per cent, Nineveh Province (Mosul) 15 per cent and Diwaniyah (Qadissiyah province ) 10 per cent. And work is ongoing to complete other provinces, God willing, may be tomorrow in the same way and will be announced in the same way."
10. Cutaway of cameraman
11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Qassim al-Aboudi, spokesman of IHEC:
"These results, as I said, are partial, and it will change from time to time depending on the new data, and so it cannot be dependable. The IHEC will complete the results officially and the IHEC will announce the total votes for each entity precisely in each station."
12. Pan around news conference
13. Close-up of partial results on screen showing the total number of votes in Baghdad
14. Zoom in to screen showing partial results in Qadissiyah province
15. Wide of news conference
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