WRAP Hondurans ready to elect new President on Sunday

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22 November 2001
1.Various shots of Presidential Candidate Maduro
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ricardo Maduro, Presidential Candidate National Party (PN)
"I want to reiterate here that I don't have political enemies, my only enemies are are insecurity, unemployment, poverty, high cost of life, and ignorance for lack of education."
3. Various shots of Presidential Candidate Rafael Pineda Ponce
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rafael Pineda Ponce, Presidential Candidate, Liberal Party (PL)
"Our grand proposal is to introduce to the chamber's floor and in the least possible time a law that will allow the general youth assembly in every branch."
23 November 2001
5. Various shots of board of elections and vote counting administration
6. Wide shot of ballots at polling station
7. Ballot papers
8. Man preparing ballots for Sunday's election
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ricardo Maduro, Presidential Candidate National Party (PN)
"Security, security, as well as health and education, social services and human resources."
10. More of election representatives preparing ballots for Sunday's election
24 November 2001
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rafael Pineda Ponce, Presidential Candidate, Liberal Party (PL)
"The central issue of my campaign is education. We have to rediscover our people, their talents and virtues to move into a direction of a competitive society in a globalised and integrated world"
12. Photo opportunity with Honduran President Flores and election observers and US Ambassador to Honduras
14. President Flores
15. Wide shot of meeting
16. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Elisabeth Spehar, OAS Chief Observer
"What has grabbed our attention is the advances that have taken place more or less in this country in the last 20 years. It is obvious to see where the country was in 1980 and 1981 and like any other country in our hemisphere there is always room for improvements and reforms. It is known that there are weaknesses in every institution in every country in terms of democracy. Honduras we can say has advanced in the subject."
17. Wide shot of observers coming out of election meeting
18. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Federico Mejia, Nonprofit
" We are fully confident that this process will be transparent. The people's vote will indicate and designate the destiny of their nation"
19. Various of Tegucigualpa streets at dusk
STORYLINE:
The front-runner in the Honduras presidential elections has promised to copy New York City's "zero tolerance" approach to crime, vowing to target traffic violations, littering and graffiti as well as robbery and murder.
Ricardo Maduro, 54, the leading contender in Sunday's elections, wants a police crackdown in the impoverished, crime-ridden Central American country.
Maduro has a comfortable lead in most polls over his rival, Rafael Pineda Ponce, of the governing Liberal Party.
Maduro hopes New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's achievements will help him just as they helped billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who came from behind to win New York City's race for mayor this month after Giuliani endorsed him.
After meeting earlier this year with Giuliani's staff and New York police officials, Maduro came up with plans to give the nation of 6.5 million inhabitants its first true traffic laws.
Currently, drivers seldom carry licenses or obey the few traffic signs that exist, turning the capital, Tegucigualpa, into a zone of permanent gridlock.
Maduro also has littering, graffiti and vagrancy laws in his sights, as well as more accountability among police and government officials.
Maduro's own son Ricardo was gunned down in 1997.
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