Yle tells how the Finnish Broadcasting Company intends to talk to the European Broadcasting Radio.
Yuval Raphael represented Israel in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and finished second with a huge number of audiences. Alma Bengtsson/EBU
Yle says He intends to talk to the Eurovision Song Contest with the European Broadcasting Union Ebu.
– We will ask Ebu, whether it is time to update these rules or at least look at whether the current rules allow for abuse, says Yle Entertainment Producer Juha Lahti To the general.
Eurovision voting practices again became a topic after the visa final. In particular, the audience votes received by Israel has spoken. Israel received 297 points from the public in the visa final and finished second. The total score of Israel was 357.
By comparison, for example, the winning country Austria received 178 points from the public.
Israel fished the audience votes with plenty of somebody marketing. In ads, the country’s representative Yuval Raphael urged us to vote several times.
Eurovision Song Contest Martin Green However, told For MTVthat the vote was valid.
“Our voting partner Once has confirmed that all the votes calculated in this year’s finals were valid,” Green comments.
According to Green, the votes check a large number of people to “exclude suspicious or abnormal voting phenomena”.
Finland’s representative Erika Vikman was excited about counting the voting of the visa final in the arena. Alma Bengtson/EBU
Yle tells how discussions about increasing the weight of the audience votes have already been tuned in the direction of EBU.
– Everyone will remember the wrapper’s situation. If the audience votes had been more weighted at the time, the Eurovision Song Contest would have already been organized in Finland, Juha Lahti comments.
According to Lahti, possibly as the weight of the public vote increases, one person’s voting opportunities should also be re -considered.
However, according to Lahti, Yle does not intend to highlight the participation of Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest. Decisions on visa issues will be made in the autumn.
EBU Salli Israel’s participation in Eurovision Song Contest was allowed this year, which sparked a lot of opposition. Palestine supporters and police brought together in Basel, Switzerland, during the visa final.
On Sunday, the Israeli Armed Forces announced that it would launch a large-scale soil operation in the southern and northern parts of Gaza. On Monday, the Israeli Prime Minister said the Israeli troops were going to take control of the entire Gaza lane.