ROMANIA: FORMER PRESIDENT ION ILIESCU SAYS HE TRUSTS VOTERS TO ELECT HIM IN SECOND ROUND OF ELECTIONS

Record ID: 328692

  • Title: ROMANIA: FORMER PRESIDENT ION ILIESCU SAYS HE TRUSTS VOTERS TO ELECT HIM IN SECOND ROUND OF ELECTIONS
  • Date: 10th December 2000
  • Summary: BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (DECEMBER 10, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. MV ELECTORAL COMMISSION AT POLLING STATION; SLV JOURNALISTS WAITING (5 SHOTS) 0.22 2. MV PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ION ILIESCU AT POLLING STATION RECEIVING BALLOT PAPERS FROM ELECTORAL COMMISSION 0.26 3. SCU ION ILIESCU LEAVING POLLING BOOTH; ILIESCU POSING FOR PICTURES IN FRONT OF BALLOT BOX; SCU ILIESCU CASTING HIS VOTE; SCU ILIESCU SHOWING TWO FINGER VICTORY SIGN AFTER CASTING HIS VOTE (4 SHOTS) 0.39 4. SOUNDBITE (English) ION ILIESCU, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE PARTY OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY (PDSR) SAYING: "I expect a better life and a good decision of our people, I am confident." 1.00 5. MV ILIESCU LEAVING SURROUNDED BY MEDIA 1.10 6. SCU CORNELIU VADIM TUDOR, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE GREATER ROMANIA PARTY (PRM) ENTERING THE POLLING STATION; VADIM TUDOR TAKING BALLOT PAPERS; LEAVING POLLING BOOTH; SCU CASTING HIS VOTE AND MAKING VICTORY SIGN (3 SHOTS) 1.54 7. MV PAN JOURNALISTS AROUND CORNELIU VADIM TUDOR 1.59 8. SOUNDBITE (English) CORNELIU VADIM TUDOR, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE GREATER ROMANIA PARTY (PRM) SAYING: "I hope that God will help Romanian people and will enter the third millennium like Christian people, like very serious partners of the Western Europe, not with a former KGB agent like Mr. Ion Iliescu but with a young man like me who respects his own word." 2.31 9. SLV POLITICAL BANNER ON BUILDING READING "VADIM PRESEDINTE!"; SCU BANNER; SLV STREET SCENES (3 SHOTS) 2.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 25th December 2000 12:00
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  • Location: BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
  • Country: Romania
  • Reuters ID: LVA8J4VD5CJ0NSWA7SD75N5J6WZE
  • Story Text: Former Romanian president Ion Iliescu has said he
    trusts voters to elect him in the second round of elections
    deemed critical to Romania's future. His ultra-nationalist
    rival has accused Iliescu of resorting to fraud.

    Iliescu, 70, Romania's first post-communist
    president from 1990 until 1996 when he was defeated by
    centrists, is favoured to beat flamboyant 51-year-old
    publisher Corneliu Vadim Tudor in Sunday's (December 10)
    election.

    "I expect a better life and a good decision of our
    people, I am confident." Ilisescu told reporters.

    The West and mainstream Romanian politicians have painted
    the choice as one between a candidate who will help this
    desperately poor Eastern European country make needed reforms
    and steps towards European Union membership or one whose
    extreme views, including anti-Semitic barbs, would take it
    backwards.

    Tudor, oblivious to rules forbidding campaigning during
    the vote, delivered a speech outside a polling station in
    Bucharest's posh Cotroceni district, accusing his rival of
    corruption and attempts to rig the vote.

    Some 17.7 million Romanians are eligible to vote. Polls
    opened at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) and were to close at 9 p.m. (1900
    GMT). The first official tallies are expected early on Monday
    (December 11).

    Tudor, whose newspapers regularly publish comments
    offensive to Jews, Gypsies and Romania's large ethnic
    Hungarian minority, came from behind in earlier opinion polls
    to win 28 percent of the popular vote in the first round of
    elections on November 26. Iliescu secured 36 percent of the
    vote in the first round.


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