AUSTRIA: SCENES IN VIENNA AS VOTING TAKES PLACE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS.

Record ID: 648025

  • Title: AUSTRIA: SCENES IN VIENNA AS VOTING TAKES PLACE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS.
  • Date: 13th June 2004
  • Summary: (U4) VIENNA, AUSTRIA (JUNE 13, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV: EXTERIOR OF VIENNA TOWN HALL. 0.05 2. VARIOUS: : ELECTION POSTERS ON STREETS. (6 SHOTS) 0.33 3. TRACK/INTERIOR: CONSERVATIVE PARTY CANDIDATE URSULA STENZEL ARRIVES AT POLLING STATION, SHAKES HANDS WITH POLL WORKERS. 0.44 4. CU: POLL WORKER CHECKING STENZEL'S DETAILS. 0.47 5. VARIOUS: STENZEL VOTING. (3 SHOTS) 1.05 6. CU: POLL WORKER CHECKS PASSPORTS. 1.10 7. LAS: VARIOUS OF PEOPLE VOTING. 1.18 8. CU: OF POLLING CAR. 1.22 9. VARIOUS: YOUNG MOTHER CARRYING BABY IN HARNESS VOTES. (2 SHOTS) 1.32 10. CU: POLL WORKER CHECKING DETAILS OF VOTER. 1.26 11. WS: YOUNG MOTHER WITH CHILD IN HARNESS VOTES. 1.41 12. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE, HANS-PETER MARTIN, VARIOUS: WHISTLE BLOWER ON EU DELEGATES WASTING MONEY, ARRIVES TO VOTE. 1.52 13. CU: VOTING PAPERS HANDED TO MARTIN. 1.56 14. CU: UNIDENTIFIED PERSON WRITING ON FORM. 2.02 15. VARIOUS: MARTIN VOTING AND TALKS TO POLL WORKERS. (2 SHOTS) 2.14 16. WS: MARTIN LEAVING POLLING STATION WITH ARM AROUND FEMALE COMPANION. 2.19 17. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(German) MARTIN SAYING: "This is a realistic estimation, that a third of the EU's budget is not used properly." (REPORTER ASKS: "Where is it going?" "Where it does not belong and where the taxpayer does not get any benefit from it." 2.34 18. WS: PEOPLE VOTING. 2.43 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: VIENNA, AUSTRIA
  • Country: Austria
  • Reuters ID: LVA8DOE5A3WMFOFSHNUM0KKL2UIC
  • Story Text: Voting takes place in Austria.



    Austrians have been voting in the European
    Parliament elections on Sunday (June 13).

    In Vienna Conservative Party candidate Ursula Stenzel
    arrived in the morning to vote, ahead of controversial
    independent candidate Hans-Peter Martin, who is running on
    an anti-EU corruption ticket.

    Martin has accused fellow European parliamentarians of
    massaging their expense budgets and committing other petty
    frauds to augment their salaries.

    A former journalist for the German magazine Der
    Spiegel, the 47-year-old Martin is leading a list of
    independent candidates whose slogan is 'Let's clean up in
    Brussels,' referring to the site of the European Union's
    headquarters.

    He claims to have evidence of seven thousand cases
    where deputies, who receive 262 euros for attending
    parliamentary sessions, were elsewhere at the time.



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