(6 Nov 2001)
1. Man letting off firecrackers
2. Firecrackers going off in sky
3. Crowd cheering for President-elect Enrique Bolanos
4. Bolanos arriving
5. More cheering crowds
6. UPSOUND: Bolanos saluting and saying in Spanish "Yes it could be done" (a version of his slogan)
7. Wide shot crowd
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Enrique Bolanos, Winner of Presidential Election
"I want to congratulate candidate Ortega for his last minute performance. It is Nicaragua who has won."
9. Crowd
10. Various of Daniel Ortega and Enrique Bolanos shaking hands
11. Ortega leaving
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Daniel Ortega, Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) candidate
"I am sure that we contributed greatly to the electoral campaign in favour of peace and stability in the country."
13. Jimmy Carter set up shot
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jimmy Carter, former US president and international observer
"I think this election, combined with those in 1990 and 1996, have proven that the Nicaraguan people are deeply committed to democracy on a permanent basis."
15. Cutaway
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jimmy Carter, former US president and international observer
"The Consejo has not performed well in the collection and the promulgation of results. It's only been because of Etica and Transparencia that the candidates knew very early this morning what the results of the election were."
17. Bolanos supporters driving by holding flags
18. Small carts driven past by cheering Bolanos supporters
19. Various FSLN supporters holding flags and dancing
STORYLINE:
73 year old businessman Enrique Bolanos was declared the winner on Monday of Nicaragua's presidential election, beating Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista candidate who was trying to make a comeback 11 years after losing power.
Bolanos' supporters chanted "Strike out! Strike out!" on Monday as they celebrated his success, using a baseball metaphor to describe Ortega's third straight election defeat as his elimination from the political game.
Ortega alluded indirectly to hostility from the United States as one reason for his defeat, but true to his efforts to win better relations with Washington, he pledged that while in congress he would fight drug trafficking and terrorism - two key U-S policy concerns.
During the campaign, U-S officials had warned against an Ortega victory, inviting Bolanos to hand out donated U-S food and encouraging a third candidate to leave the race.
With only 13 percent of the official vote reported nearly a full day after the polls closed, Bolanos' Constitutionalist Liberal Party led 53.7 percent to 44.6 percent for Ortega.
The Conservative Party had 1.6 percent.
But all the signs are that Bolanos is the winner by a wide margin.
A scientific quick count by the independent group Ethics and Transparency projected the final count as 55.9 to 42.6 percent, with a 0.5 percent margin of error.
An enormous voter turnout overwhelmed a stumbling election bureaucracy.
Some voters who had waited in line were still casting ballots at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, more than five hours after the scheduled closing of polls.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher declared the election a success and praised the massive electoral turnout, saying it showed the Nicaraguan people's "unwavering commitment to democracy".
The peacefulness of the election belied claims by outgoing President Arnoldo Aleman that Sandinistas would violently disrupt the vote.
Bolanos himself suffered expropriation and prison under the Sandinistas.
It was evidently a message that hit home with Nicaraguans.
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