CZECH REPUBLIC: FORMER PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL VOTES IN EU ELECTIONS BUT CANDIDATE AND FORMER PORN STAR "DOLLY BUSTER" IS REFUSED A VOTE

Record ID: 328758

  • Title: CZECH REPUBLIC: FORMER PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL VOTES IN EU ELECTIONS BUT CANDIDATE AND FORMER PORN STAR "DOLLY BUSTER" IS REFUSED A VOTE
  • Date: 11th June 2004
  • Summary: (U3) (PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC) (RECENT) (REUTERS) 1. CITY OF PRAGUE SKYLINE 0.05 (U3) PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC (JUNE 11, 2004) (REUTERS) 2. EXTERIOR OF ACADEMY BUILDING 0.10 3. LV/HAS: FORMER CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL WITH WIFE DAGMAR ARRIVING AT PRIMARY SCHOOL NORBERTOV POLLING STATION (2 SHOTS) 0.21 4. VARIOUS OF HAVEL AND DAGMAR AT THE POLL (2 SHOTS) 0.36 5. DAGMAR HAVEL VOTING, HAVEL WAITING (2 SHOTS) 0.45 6. HAVEL VOTING 0.52 7. HAVEL AND DAGMAR LEAVING THE POOL 0.58 8. (SOUNDBITE)(Czech) FORMER CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL SPEAKING TO JOURNALISTS SAYING: "I did not vote for people who see the EU as a group of our enemies" 1.07 9. HAVEL AND WIFE WALK AWAY 1.23 10. WS: ANOTHER POLLING STATION 1.26 11. EU CANDIDATE NORA BAUMBERGER, ALSO KNOWN AS PORN STAR "DOLLY BUSTER", ARRIVING TO VOTE 1.30 12. NORA BAUMBERGER SPEAKING TO OFFICIAL AND POSING AT POLLING STATION 0.13 13. (SOUNDBITE) (Czech) UNIDENTIFIED OFFICIAL SAYING: "You have to have the voters ID." / NORA BAUMBERGER SAYING: "How can I get it?" / UNIDENTIFIED OFFICIAL SAYING: "You cannot get it now." / NORA BAUMBERGER SAYING: "I can not get it?" / UNIDENTIFIED OFFICIAL SAYING: "You cant" / NORA BAUMBERGER SAYING: "So I can not vote?" / UNIDENTIFIED OFFICIAL SAYING: "NO, BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE YOU ON THE LIST." / VNORA BAUMBERGER (SPEAKING TO PHOTOGRAPHERS AND JOURNALISTS) SAYING: "So you can see it: It is another discrimination, as usual. I cant go vote, even if I am a citizen of the Czech state. We took care about it. It is my usual problem, that my papers are always somehow lost, destroyed That's why I got my ID card, but I am always discriminated now I cant even go to vote for myself. This is discrimination. NORA BAUMBERGER (SPEAKING TO PHOTOGRAPHERS AND JOURNALISTS) SAYING: "So you can see it: It is another discrimination, as usual. I cant go vote, even if I am a citizen of the Czech state. We took care about it. It is my usual problem, that my papers are always somehow lost, destroyed That's why I got my ID card, but I am always discriminated now I cant even go to vote for myself. This is discrimination This is the first thing, which I will change in the EU, discrimination I am discriminated and I cannot Vote" This is the first thing, which I will change in the EU, discrimination I am discriminated and I cannot vote." 2.39 14. PHOTOGRAPHERS 2.43 15. VARIOUS OF OTHER PEOPLE VOTING (4 SHOTS) 3.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
  • Reuters ID: LVA22XOPUGES77TUR60DQLZLGPAP
  • Story Text: Former Czech President Vaclav Havel voted in EU
    elections but candidate and former porn star 'Dolly
    Buster', was not allowed to vote.



    The Czechs became the first people from a former
    communist European state to vote in a European Parliament
    election on Friday (June 11), as the European Union (EU)
    staged the biggest ballot in its history.

    Vaclav Havel, the playwright and statesman who led the
    Czech Republic from communism to the brink of EU
    membership, was among the first to vote with his wife
    Dagmar.

    "I did not vote for people who see the EU as a group
    of our enemies," he said after voting in a diplomatic
    quarter near his former presidential seat at Prague Castle.

    Voting rules were strictly enforced when Nora
    Baumberger, also known as porn star "Dolly Buster" went to
    vote.

    An election official told Baumberger, who is an EU
    candidate of Nezavisla iniciativa (Independent initiative),
    that she was not allowed to vote because she was not on the
    list of the voters.

    Baumberger, who starred in German sex movies before
    becoming a producer and the owner of a string of sex shops,
    said that there always seemed to be a problem with her
    papers and complained of discrimination. She said that, if
    elected, she would raise the issue of discrimination in the
    EU parliament as her first priority.

    "This is the first thing, which I will change in the
    EU, discrimination I am discriminated and I cannot vote"
    As a recent resident of Germany, Dolly's Czech
    residency may not have been registered in time for the
    election.

    Of the 10 states which joined the EU just six weeks
    ago, the Czech Republic was the only one voting on Friday.

    The Latvians and Maltese will cast their first European
    votes on Saturday, while the Czechs carry on voting. The
    other seven new countries to join the EU will join most of
    the bloc in voting on Sunday.

    By Sunday night, some 350 million Europeans from
    Lisbon to Latvia will have had the chance to vote for the
    expanded 732-member European Parliament based in
    Strasbourg.


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