(9 Dec 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Close-up of Romanian and EU flags with student drawings on right
2. Close-up of ballots
3. Mid of electoral officials
4. Close-up of ballot boxes
5. Close-up of electoral official cancelling ballots
6. Various of ballot box, ballots being overturned onto table
7. Close-up of stamp
8. Close-up of ballot box being emptied on table
9. Wide of officials counting ballots
10. Close-up of ballot
11. Various of counting
12. Close-up of student drawings of Romanian map

STORYLINE
Polling stations closed and ballots were counted in the Romanian town of Baicoi, 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of Bucharest on Sunday as the nation waits to hear the results of parliamentary elections.
Exit polls claim Romania's centre-left government won a clear victory, but the result could inflame the personal rivalry between the nation's top two officials and bring yet more political upheaval.
The prime minister's governing alliance had about 57 percent of seats in the 452-seat legislature, according to a poll published after elections on national television TVR.
Coming in second was a centre-right group, allied to President Traian Basescu, which polled over 18 percent.
A populist party headed by a media tycoon won about 13 percent, according to the poll. First results are expected Monday.
Basescu and Ponta are bitter rivals after the government tried to remove Basescu from office in an impeachment vote in July - a bid that failed as too few people voted to make the election valid.
Ponta became prime minister in May, the third prime minister this year, but his appointment brought a bitter battle with Basescu, whose mandate expires in 2014.
Basescu has indicated he won't appoint Ponta again, calling him a ''compulsive liar'' and saying he plagiarised his doctoral thesis.
Ponta says Basescu is a divisive figure who has overstepped his role as president by meddling in government business.
Basescu could nominate someone else, but his choice would have to be approved by parliament.
If his candidate fails in two rounds of voting parliament could be dissolved.
Many Romanians are fed up with the power struggle between the top two leaders, especially as the country remains one of the poorest and most corrupt members of the European Union.

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