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(4 Dec 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Pan of crowd attending presidential candidate Alan Garcia's campaign
2. Close up of supporter with his face painted, word written in his forehead reading "Alan"
3. Campaign banner behind the supporters
4. Alan Garcia's waving to supporters from the stage
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alan Garcia, 2006 Presidential Candidate:
"The country doesn't forgive that the minister's, ambassador's, and congressmen's salaries, they have given themselves, are an insult, while the rest of the country has a minimum salary of 460 soles (Approximately 135 US dollars)."
6. Cutaway of supporters
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alan Garcia, 2006 Presidential Candidate:
"I announce that I will gather the poor, the workers, the farmers, the mothers, the unemployed, the immense majority of Peruvians, which a bad economic model and a horrible political system have left aside."
8. Mid of supporters
9. Close up of supporter
10. Wide of supporters waving flags, then pan up across the rally

STORYLINE:

Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia, leader of the centre-left Aprista Party, kicked off his presidential campaign late on Friday calling for a 50 percent reduction to the salaries of government officials and legislators.

"The country doesn't forgive that the minister's, ambassador's, and congressmen's salaries, they have given themselves, are an insult, while the rest of the country has a minimum salary of 460 soles (Approximately 135 US dollars)," he said.

Garcia leads third with 13 percent in a poll released on Monday.

Results indicated that a former congresswoman, Lourdes Flores, had a sizeable lead in Peru's presidential election, slated for April.

Ollanta Humala, a former lieutenant colonel, shot up 10 points from October to claim second place in voter preference with 15 percent.

Which left two former presidents, Garcia, third, and Valentin Paniagua, head of the centrist Popular Action party, fourth with 11 percent.

The poll sampled 1,000 people throughout Peru in November.

Alan Garcia, 51, reviled by most Peruvians as the president who drove their economy into the ground, stunned Peruvians by toppling six other candidates and finishing second in the first round of voting which took place on April 8, 2001.

First in the first round was current president Alejandro Toledo.

Garcia promises to open the state's purse-strings to help the poor.

On Friday he said he would be there for all the Peruvians that "a bad economic model and a horrible political system" had left aside.

When Garcia took office a dollar bought about 12 intis, Peru's former currency.

When he left five years later, a dollar bought one (m) million intis on the black market.

Two years after leaving office, Garcia fled the country as the new government of Alberto Fujimori pursued corruption charges against him and the media aired reports on the alleged looting done by his Aprista party.

Colombia gave him asylum.

The corruption charges against him expired, and Garcia returned, admitting he made mistakes and casting himself as an elder statesman who has outgrown leftist ideas.

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