(29 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Various of Uruguayan presidential candidate Jose Mujica casting his vote in polling station
2. Various of Mujica supporters outside clapping and singing
3. Current Uruguay President Tabare Vazquez getting out of car at polling centre to cheering supporters, Vazques hugging supporters
4. Group of Vazqez supporters
5. Interior of polling station, Vazquez greeting supporters
6. Cutaway of Vazquez's ID being checked
7. Papers being checked
8. Vazquez voting
9. Exterior, Vazquez greeting supporters
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Tabare Vazquez, President of Uruguay:
"Five years ago I felt an overwhelming tension and anxiety for the responsibility that I faced. Now I feel a great sense of satisfaction and great happiness to be received and greeted like this by the Uruguayan people after five years in power."
11. Wide of another polling station
12. Interior, people lining up to vote
13. Election official checking ID
14. Woman casting vote
15. Voting card being stamped
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juliana da Silva, voter:
"I think that Pepe Mujica is going to win, I think that's what people want."
17. Various of woman entering room to vote
18. Close up of sign on door
19. Various of candidates' election material
20. Woman casting vote
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fabricio del Rancho, voter:
"I don't feel like voting."
(Q: What do you mean?)
"Well, I had to get up early. If it wasn't compulsory, no... I had no desire to vote."
22. Man receiving papers to vote
23. Close up of documents being checked
24. Man casting his vote
25. Wide of supporters at polling station where former president Luis Alberto Lacalle votes
26. Lacalle supporters at polling station
27. Lacalle arriving at polling station, greeting supporters
28. Lacalle shaking hands with election officials and giving his ID
29. Close up of Lacalle's ID
30. Lacalle showing voting ballot to press, zoom in on balot
31. Cutaway of media
32. Various of Lacalle casting vote
33. Cutaway of media
34. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Alberto Lacalle, Uruguayan presidential candidate and former president:
"I call on the people to wave all the flags today. All of them. Those who will wave victorious flags will do it with more joy, but please everybody, keep waving the flags, especially the national flag."
35. Lacalle leaving
STORYLINE
A plain-talking former leader of leftist guerrillas who once sought power through kidnappings and bombings is now the president-elect of Uruguay.
Jose Mujica won more than 50 percent of the votes cast in a run-off election on Sunday, according to exit polls by the South American country's three leading pollsters, giving the centre-left Broad Front coalition five more years in power.
Former President Luis Alberto Lacalle of the centre-right National Party conceded defeat.
He trailed with about 45 percent of the votes, exit polls by Cifra, Factum and Equipos Mori said.
The Electoral Court was expected to release official results late on Sunday.
Lacalle had sought to portray his rival as a radical who would transform Uruguay into an extremist socialist state, but Mujica campaigned as a consensus builder, saying he would continue the policies of popular President Tabare Vazquez and work to unify Latin Americans after taking office begins March 1.
The Tupamaro guerrillas, which were co-founded by Mujica, caused so much chaos in the 1960s that Uruguayans initially welcomed a dictatorship that ruled in 1973-85.
Mujica, 74, vowed to do everything possible to build bridges and avoid creating an atmosphere of tension and drama.
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