(26 Sep 2005)
1. Wide shot street with academy of science in background
2. Newspaper stand
3. Newspapers on display
4. People buying newspapers
5. Newspaper headline reading: "Victory finish for Law and Justice"
6. Newspaper headline with picture of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Law and Justice (PiS) leader
7. Newspaper headline reading: "We shall have the 4th Republic"
8. Newspaper headline saying "PiS (Law and Justice Party) winner" with graphic of results
9. Various people at bus station reading newspapers
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop:
"I think it is a bad fact that PiS won because they are populist and have a bad economic programme."
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop:
"People have chosen another group and I do believe that we will make it this time, I hope so. Better performance and better conditions for the
people."
12. Woman reading newspaper in front of poster of Lech Kaczynski (PiS presidential candidate and twin brother of Jaroslaw)
13. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Vox pop:
"I hope there will be changes in Poland for the better. I hope the unemployment rate will fall, there will be better laws for opening small and medium companies, that something moves into this direction, that the economy improves."
14. Woman reading newspaper at bus station
STORYLINE:
A centre-right coalition seems set to take power in Poland as Polish voters appear to have pulled back at the last minute from propelling the most committed advocates of free-market reform to power.
The surprise result - if TV projections are confirmed by the actual count - is a win for the Law and Justice Party, which mixes free-market ideas with strong advocacy of equality and aid for the needy.
Law and Justice had lagged in the polls behind Civic Platform, its prospective coalition partner.
The two leading Polish parties both hail from the Solidarity labour movement that helped topple communism and have been promising to rule jointly.
On the streets of Warsaw on Monday morning, some residents said they hoped to see Poland change for the better.
The state electoral commission said on Monday that with 60 percent of votes counted, the conservative Law and Justice Party had 26.5 percent of the vote, while the free-market Civic Platform had 24 percent.
The governing Democratic Left Alliance, whose term saw Poland join the European Union 16 months ago, lagged far behind with about 11 percent - an apparent punishment for a series of corruption scandals.
Observers have attributed Civic Platform's worse-than-expected showing in part to a deep complacency: with polls long predicting the party would win, many party supporters were so certain of victory they didn't even bother to vote.
The turnout of only 40.3 percent, the lowest for a parliamentary election in post-communist Poland, was widely seen as an indicator of voter dismay at the political climate.
Voters appeared to be disenchanted with the former communists of the Democratic Left Alliance government after a series of scandals, and with unemployment at 17.8 percent, despite strong growth.
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