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European broadcasters to vote on expelling Israel from Eurovision 2026 (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ctry21@sh.itjust.works to c/eurovision@lemmy.world

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[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They should make a live-stream of the votes ESC final style

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The score for the representative from the UK are.... nul points.

Standard.

[–] dentoid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unless you have that ESCjesus dude again

Or was that australia idk

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

No, you're right. That was Sam Ryder - Spaceman. From ESC 2022.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

LOL I instantly knew who you were talking about 🤣. Yeah that was us.

[–] ctry21@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a vote of every member EBU broadcaster in every country, regardless of whether they participate in Eurovision. I don't think the results will be easy to predict in advance as even the Vatican would in theory get a vote and countries with multiple broadcasters in the EBU get a vote for each.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 19 points 1 week ago

I’d like to know if the votes of each broadcaster will be made public

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 26 points 1 week ago

The UN has found Israel has committed genocide. It's time for countries to stop hiding behind technicalities. It's long overdue to condemn the behavior. Do not let Israel participate in ESC.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I expect that there will be expert panels that have 50% majority vote on the issue, and the rest will be the broadcasters

Also that there will be no transparency and no one can verify anything...

[–] Microw@piefed.zip 8 points 1 week ago

The vote is not the news, that was always gonna happen.

The news is that they will hold the vote already in November, not in December as previously expected.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If Israel supporters such as UK vote against this in enough numbers and they are technically allowed to participate will the countries that have announced boycotts still refuse to participate?

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The BBC will abstain thanks to their charter. It’s the broadcasters not countries voting.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

In this context - with the need for a 75% majority to carry the motion - will an abstention be, in effect, the same as a vote against?