National broadcasters for Spain and Belgium have now complained to the competition’s organisers, the European Broadcasting Union, after Israel won the public vote by a large margin.
RTVE, Spain’s public broadcaster, and VRT, the Flemish broadcasting company, are demanding that organisers investigate the televoting system, which allows voters at home to vote up to 20 times for a small cost charged to each vote by text or phone call.
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The EBU confirmed that RTVE and VRT had been in contact and said it took the complaints “seriously”.
Martin Green, the director of Eurovision, said: “It is important to emphasise that the voting operation for the Eurovision Song Contest is the most advanced in the world and each country’s result is checked and verified by a huge team of people to exclude any suspicious or irregular voting patterns.”
Israel is currently starving 2 million people to death and openly advocating for genocide and ethnic cleansing. It is unacceptable to give them a stage and legitimize them that way. If it was Russia still allowed to participate in Eurovision we would have the same outcry.
And in so many cases it is really senseless stupid. It’s fucking Eurovision. It’s a silly, but entertaining show, but some people really take it too serious.
Lmao, it has always been about politics, not the songs. Which is why Ukraine won when the war escalated. Which is why Israel almost winning looks suspicious as fuck. The public doesn’t like them right now, no matter how hard they try to spin it PR wise.
What?
Eurovision has always been political
Only for stupid people who complained about “voting blocks” and “eastern european votes” and stuff like that. Some people take the ESC way to serious.
Clearly you aren’t taking it serious enough