The EBU communiqué on the alleged irregularities in the Eurovision vote are generating the first effects. Among the countries involved in the “voting scandal” there is San Marino, with public television which kept us from making clarifications after what happened, contesting the decision and, above all, the method adopted. Through a long press release published on social media San Marino RTV he specified “that he had always remained in contact with EBU and considered EBU the only interlocutor until yesterday’s press release in the late afternoon. The press release was not shared despite the fact that RTV – and the other 5 countries involved – are active members of the consortium”.

San Marino responds to Eurovision’s accusations

The public network of San Marino then goes on the counterattack: “It is important to underline this because the way in which EBU has moved in this affair seems in our opinion a bit authoritarian rather than inspired by the associations that instead guide and regulate the relations between EBU members. We have already pointed out to EBU the our disappointment with the way and we are not referring to just the press release that has just come out. When asked if EBU believed the suspicions of voting irregularities to be 100% founded, the answer was no “. It’s still:

When asked if EBU had realized that a group of countries from the second semifinal would have apparently exchanged 12, 8, 7 and 6 the answer was no. When asked why the canceled votes of San Marino and the other 5 suspected countries were all given to Sweden (who were given 72 points) and Australia (60 points for her) the answer was because “they had the best songs . Nothing makes us think that our jurors voted for something they didn’t like. Their – and ours – 12 to Italy was replaced by EBU with a 12 to Spain. We asked how this new vote was “calculated” but we have not been given a precise answer. We know Eurovision and we have been collaborating with them for years, we continue to believe in institutions and in the competition and we cheer for the best, even if it doesn’t always have the best song.

The press release closes with a further clarification: “We remind you that according to the EBU recalculation, the points awarded just by San Marino to Italy were 3. During the hours Montenegro also rejected the accusations of being granted, noting how others also voted for each other (Sweden, Australia, Belgium and Estonia) demonstrating that, given the small number of nations competing in the first semifinal, it was impossible to avoid repetitions in the voting “.

EBU assumes irregularities in voting

To raise the case of the alleged irregularities was the organization of Eurovision, which on the afternoon of 19 May had released a statement to explain the chaos of the votes that had risked compromising the semi-finals and finals. It seems that Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino must agree to assign higher points (which, remember, and then 10 and 12). Here is what we read:

“In the second semifinal it was noted that four of the six juries all placed five of the other countries in their Top 5 (taking into consideration the inability to vote for themselves); one jury rated itself for the five in its Top 6 and the The last of the six juries placed four of the other countries in its Top 4 and a fifth country in its Top 7. Four of the six countries have received 12 points at least once, which is the maximum that can be awarded. “