(5 Dec 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Pull out from 'Evo' mark on La Paz hills to wide of La Paz
2. Various of election posters
3. Various of exteriors of Presidential Palace
4. Wide of Bolivian President Evo Morales with delegation from OAS (Organisation of American States)
5. Cutaway of OAS head of observers' mission Horacio Serpa (left)
6. Bolivian president Evo Morales and Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera
7. Cutaway, cameras
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Horacio Serpa, head of OAS observers mission:
"We are confident that tomorrow's process is going to be transparent and democratic."
9. Various of staged voting operation at EU observers' centre
10. Various, street scenes
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miriam de Mendez, VOX POP:
"I hope that there is going to be tranquility and that people will think before choosing who they want as president."
12. Morales electoral poster outside building
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Teodora Mamani, street vendor, VOX POP:
"It is good that he stays, he is doing well as far as I am concerned."
14. Election office, with election workers
15. Various, voting material being prepared for dispatch to polling stations
STORYLINE
Bolivia is getting ready for Sunday's Presidential elections where President Evo Morales is confident to extend his Presidency for another five years.
In the morning before polling, he met a delegation from the OAS (Organisation of American States) headed by former Colombian presidential candidate Horacio Serpa, who told journalists that he is confident the electoral process will be transparent and democratic.
A delegation from the European Union put on a display of the mechanics of voting to show just exactly how the election is organised.
A new biometrics system of identification is being used by the country's five million voters for the first time, but is has already received a barrage of criticism.
Right-wingers say it is a government ploy to affect the vote count in their favour, while Morales' supporters have criticised the election organisers for not releasing enough information on how it will work.
Morales will be facing former Cochabamba provincial governor Manfred Reyes Villa who is hoping to force a second round despite all the polls suggesting Morales will win with a significant advantage.
Villa's running mate is former Pando Governor Leopoldo Fernandez, who is in prison accused of being responsible for an indigenous massacre last year.
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