Greeks vote in municipal polls, leaders voting, soundbites

• published: 30 Jul 2015
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SHOTLIST POOL Athens 1. Prime Minister George Papandreou walking towards polling station, shaking hands with people along the way 2. Mid of Papandreou walking 3. Papandreou casting his vote, shakes hands as he leaves ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ 4. SOUNDBITE (Greek) George Papandreou, Greek Prime Minister: "We take decisions for the stability of our country, which we need in order to continue with the obvious but difficult changes that our country needs. We are winning some battles, and we will continue to do so as a country and I know that we can continue our efforts, and we will succeed all Greeks together." POOL Pylos Messinia 5. Pan exterior of Conservative party leader Antonis Samaras walking into polling station 6. Mid interior of polling station, Samaras shaking hands with election officials 7. Pull out from Samaras coming out of booth with vote and putting it in ballot box ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ POOL Pylos Messinia 8. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Antonis Samaras, Conservative party leader: "Today the Greek public will speak. The Greeks are not afraid. They will select the best, and they will also send a powerful message towards the government. A message for changing the country's course. Hope will win again." AP TELEVISION Athens 9. Wide exterior of school serving as polling station with 10. Mid interior of voter giving identification card to election official 11. Mid of election official taking down information 12. Wide of polling station with voter going into booth 13. Voter seen casting ballot through ballot box 14. Mid of political analyst and publisher Giorgos Kyrtsos at his desk 15. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Giorgos Kyrtsos, Political analyst and publisher: "We are gauging the power of the PASOK (Socialist Party) government to see if it can pursue the implantation of difficult social and financial policies." 16. Close up of Kyrtsos' hands 17. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Giorgos Kyrtsos, political analyst and publisher: "I think that the way things are progressing, because there is no ripe, ready solution, Papandreou has the political advantage. But this political advantage, which in a way will be confirmed in today's elections, will not destabilise the government, in my opinion. It can be questioned by the economy's continuously negative course. In other words Papandreou must in the next six, twelve, maximum 18 months show positive results with his policies. Until now we have greater recession, greater inflation, greater unemployment. Everything is going from bad to worse. No society can bear this." 18. Polling station with man entering voting booth 19. Wide of man walking to ballot boxes and casting his vote 20. Wide of polling station room, seated election official playing with worry beads STORYLINE Greeks cast ballots on Sunday in local elections that could reverberate across world markets: Prime Minister George Papandreou has vowed to call a snap general election unless voters show support for his bracing austerity measures. Papandreou's 13-month-old Socialist government instituted the fiscal reforms so his debt-strapped nation could receive 110 (b) billion euro (140 (b) billion US dollars) in bailout loans from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. However, he has not said clearly what results he would consider satisfactory, leaving himself some room to manoeuvre. The Socialists appear unlikely to suffer a heavy defeat, with opinion polls predicting a roughly even split with main opposition conservatives in the 13 regional governor races. Opposition parties have all campaigned against the terms of the bailout loans, adding pressure on Papandreou, who has faced months of disruptive strikes and protests as a deepening recession caused a surge in unemployment and small business failures. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8785581f5747a6ffb127412ffc182cb6 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork