How women's issues will influence the Polish election

(17 Oct 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of Warsaw city centre, with Palace of Culture and Science in background
2. Street scene, Law and Justice campaign poster on hoarding
3. Woman waiting by tram
4. People walking in the street
5. Interior office of Women's Party, party campaign poster on which party members appear in the nude, with caption (in Polish): "Everything for the future. The Women's Party. Poland is a woman. Nothing to hide."
6. Close-up of two women on the poster
7. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Manuela Gretkowska, Women's Party leader:
"We do not appear erotic in it. We have bravery and determination in our eyes. We are not naked, you see more nudity on the beach. This is a very Catholic poster because according to St Thomas of Aquinas, a human being is made of body and soul. Body and soul is behind what we fight for."
8. Cutaway of Gretkowska
9. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Manuela Gretkowska, Women's Party leader:
"Any party which is still establishing itself, and particularly the Women's Party, if we throw in the subject of abortion, we would not be able to exist because some women have one opinion, and others entirely another. Essentially, in Poland, women's problems are dismissed and seen in the same way as digestive problems, for example. As if this is the only thing women are occupied with. Nobody would even look at our policies if we spoke about abortion, it would only be about the issue of abortion. We want to show that we have policies, we have ideas on how to improve women's situation in Poland. However within our party, we have women who are pro-abortion and anti-abortion. But we are just establishing ourselves."
10. Various of expecting couples in pre-natal class
11. Baby books on display
12. Set-up shot of the Polish president's advisor on women's affairs, Nelly Rokita
13. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Nelly Rokita, Polish president's advisor on women's affairs:
"The idea (of the Women's Party) is a bit ridiculous, but this is a democracy and it is a good thing that women have mobilised themselves in this way and that they want to be (politically) active. But this poster, this degradation, the exposure of their bodies, giving away their bodies - I think this is a bit senseless. And as the polls indicate, society does not like these types of activities, the public doesn't support the Women's Party to the extent that they would get into the Sejm (parliament)."
14. Various of women walking in the street
15. Set-up shots of feminist and Green Party 2004 member, Kazimiera Szczuka
16. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Kazimiera Szczuka, feminist and member of Green Party 2004:
"When it comes to the procreation rights of women, the Women's Party speaks about this issue very vaguely. This is not good. I am of course on the side of women who participate in politics - I support them - but I think that these groups and parties still have a long way to go before they will actually rule."
17. Pan of students
18. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Vox Pop, Jacek, Warsaw Resident and politics student:
"Their existence is good in the sense that there aren't that many women in government and I think that it would be good if they joined the debate because men, after all, approach the issue of abortion with indifference because it doesn't affect them directly."
19. SOUNDBITE: (Polish) Vox Pop, Jacek, Warsaw Resident:
"They are pointless. Politics is definitely for men, it definitely isn't something I approve of."
20. Close-up of Women's Party campaign poster showing party member (left) and Gretkowska (on right) with slogan reading (in Polish): "Poland is a woman."
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