(21 Jan 2008)
1. Wide of traffic in Belgrade
2. Wide of billboard of presidential candidate Tomislav Nikolic and another billboard with slogan reading (Serbian): "Kosovo is Serbia"
3. Close-up of Nikolic's billboard
4. Mid of Nikolic's billboard next to billboard of Serbian President Boris Tadic
5. Mid of people walking on street
6. Close-up of Serbian flag
7. Wide of newspaper stand
8. Mid of newspapers
9. Close-up of newspaper headlines reading (Serbian): "Kostunica (Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica) chooses: Nikolic (39.4%) or Tadic (35.4%)"
10. Close-up of pictures of Tadic with his family and Nikolic with his wife
11. Mid of newspapers' front pages with headlines reading (Serbian): "Tomislav Nikolic won in the first round" and "Kostunica (Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica) chooses: Nikolic (39.4%) or Tadic (35.4%)"
12. People walking on street
13. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Vox pop, young man, Belgrade resident (name not given):
"Very unpredictable. It is going to be very interesting. I haven't voted in the first round, however I will definitely vote in the second round. I expect Boris Tadic to win."
14. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Vox pop, woman, Belgrade resident (name not given):
"I am surprised by the turnout of the people in Serbia. I didn't expect that, however, I expect the Democrats to win."
15. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Vox pop, middle-aged man, Belgrade resident (name not given):
"Nothing spectacular has happened. It doesn't matter who is going to become president of Serbia, I don't think they will have any influence on Serbia's future. Whoever becomes president, that person will have to behave accordingly."
16. Wide of Nikolic's billboard with cars passing by
17. Close-up of Democratic Party's billboard with Tadic and slogan reading (Serbian): "To conquer Europe together"
18. Wide of Parliament building with traffic in foreground
STORYLINE:
In Serbia's presidential election, an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic was edging ahead of the pro-Western incumbent, but had failed to win an outright majority, according to near complete official results released on Monday.
Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic and incumbent Boris Tadic said on Sunday they were preparing for a February 3 runoff.
The state electoral commission, giving preliminary results after counting 80 percent of ballots, said that Nikolic had 39 percent support, while Tadic had 35 percent.
The commission said the final results, to be issued later on Monday, were unlikely to be different.
An official of the Belgrade's Centre for Free Elections and Democracy, an independent monitoring group, said the runoff will be extremely tight.
Meanwhile on Monday, people on streets of Belgrade expressed their opinions.
"Very unpredictable. It is going to be very interesting. I haven't voted in the first round, however I will definitely vote in the second round. I expect Boris Tadic to win," a Serbian man told AP Television.
Others were more sceptical. Another man, AP Television spoke to, said that nothing "spectacular" happened.
"It doesn't matter who is going to become president of Serbia, I don't think they will have any influence on Serbia's future. Whoever becomes president, that person will have to behave accordingly," he said.
Looming over the vote is the expected declaration of independence next month by the separatist Kosovo province, Serbia's medieval heartland and now dominated by pro-independence ethnic Albanians.
Nikolic has sought to evoke Serbs' nationalist pride and has played on the growing frustration over US and EU backing for Kosovo independence.
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