Eurovision is facing pressure from EU legislators due to “fraud” television votes
AdvertisementTwo weeks after the Euro Festival of the 2025 Song Festival, the controversy over the honesty of the television voting continues to increase.
A group of 12 Mepis of Socialist, Left, Green, Green and Liberal Groups wrote to the European Broadcasting Union (UR) direction, which arranges the competition, in the letter with a letter with the approach of “growing concerns over 2025 -related irregularities.”
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Broadcasts declared the suspicions of television voting handling and questioned the role of the state -based promotion, that is, the second -classized Israeli candidate of this year’s competition would benefit from the Israeli government’s advertising agency (profit) campaigns.
The Irish broadcaster RTE has asked for a formal voting data, while the VRT questioned whether it would continue to compete if the VRT public would not be able to publicly complete transparency.
“Although the song is intended to merge Europe through the music and culture of the song, the latest improvements have introduced the shade of its credibility and neutrality,” Slovenian Moo MCDJ told the Eurneus who started the letter.
Nemac criticized the national governments engaging in promoting their actions, and he considered him to violate the policies of justice, sides and freedom of the UER.
The letter cited the VRT data that reveals significant and indescribable contradictions between the number of audiences and the participation of television votes during the 2023-2025 matches.
The letter states that “these trends are not easily explained by organic fluctuations in the enthusiasm of the audience and justifies a deep choice,” indicates the number of broadcasters who question their own data.
“This is not an isolated concern, but a vast problem to be solved,” Nemke said.
MEPs established the UER to take specific measures, including spreading full voting data, recognizing an independent audit and using protection to avoid political intervention in competition.
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Martin Green, the director of the Eurovision Song Festival, released an open letter to address the transparency and integrity of the voting process.
Green acknowledged the issues raised by broadcasting organisms and confirmed that they would be discussed at the next UER reference committee meeting.
Although promotional initiatives of participating countries are allowed in the music industry and are common, UER analyzes that these campaigns will unnecessarily affect the votes of the votes.
He also pointed out that the Eurovision voting system includes “multiple level safety”, and has been overseeing over 60 professionals in Colonia, Vienna and Amsterdam, which is the German GMPH -managed votes and is independently verified.
Green said there is no evidence that the payment system and the current rule of restricting votes to 20 by a person is affecting the results. However, the issue will be reviewed in the post -competition process.
