Romania, Georgia, Azerbaijan seek clarifications over Eurovision votes changeMay 16, 2022 - 11:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan are seeking clarifications regarding a decision by the organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest to scrap jury votes from those three countries. The EBU said "certain irregular voting patterns" in the results of six countries were identified in the analysis if the jury voting in the Second Semi-Final of the contest. These were then replaced by an aggregated result based on countries with similar voting patterns in both the second semi-final and the grand final. Broadcaster TVR from Romania has since described the EBU’s decision “an unpleasant surprise”, ESCXTRA reports. In their statement, the Romanian broadcaster states that they had not received any information about the exclusion of their jury scores. They specifically state that their jury had awarded twelve points to Moldova. However, in the accumulated jury score that was created by the EBU upon excluding Romania’s jury, Moldova didn’t receive a single point. Instead, their twelve points now went to eventual winners Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine. "In this extraordinary situation, which surprised us unpleasantly, TVR asked the ESC organisers to provide us, officially, the clear reasons why they replaced the jury score in Romania with a “substitute” calculated in a non-transparent way. Depending on the answer that will be sent to us, TVR reserves the right to take measures to correct the situation created." TVR said. The Georgian public broadcaster GPB announced that in its jury awarded 12 points to Ukraine. However, Georgia's 12 points went to the United Kingdom, Eurovoix said. The Public Broadcaster is clarifying the details with the organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest. Azerbaijan is facing similar problems. TV presenter Narmin Salmanova maintained that her country too awarded the maximum score to Ukraine, and not to Great Britain, According to Salmanova, the Azerbaijani has broadcaster initiated proceedings on this matter, Vedomosti reports. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Erdogan wants “realistic road map” for relations with Armenia Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a “new realistic road map” for relations with Armenia. Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements. Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of Armenia Henrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan. |