(3 Nov 1996) T/I: 10:14:18 GS 10:51:22
Romanians voted on Sunday (3/11) in presidential and parliamentary elections that are likely to see incumbent Ion Iliescu returned as head of state, but faced with a legislature dominated by the opposition.
Iliescu, who came to power after the 1989 revolution and was re-elected with a large majority in 1992, is the favourite of the 16 candidates running in the presidential election. He was the first of the candidates to cast his vote at a polling station in a residential area of the capital. Iliescu's main rivals are Emil Constantinescu of the Christian Democratic Party and former prime minister Petre Roman of the Social Democratic Party.
SHOWS:
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA. 3/11
polls opening,
general voting scenes,
paper in ballot box
soldiers arriving at polling station,
soldiers voting,
prison watchtower,
prisoners names called,
prisoner voting,
President Ion Iliescu and his wife Nina arrive,
couple places ballot
papers in boxes,
gives victory sign.
former premier Petre Roman, of the Social Democratic Union, voting,
victory sign,
Christian Democrat Emil Constantinescu voting;
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