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.”
People who oppose Israel’s participation didn’t watch and didn’t vote. That alone will have had an influence on the result. Even if they did vote, their votes were spread across dozens of other candidates.
Edit: I should’ve been more precise and said “many people”. Wishful thinking on my part, I suppose.
I would think the very people who watch and participate are exactly the ones who would oppose Israel. It’s a very woke broadcast.
I did not watch (and haven’t since 2023) and many others didn’t either. I am a bit disappointed in us that we did not even reach you with our calls to participate in the boycott, that’s our bad.