ITALY – As if the Belarusian aggregated result mistake was not enough, there seems to be another issue with the Italian public voting this time. It was discovered that the RAI document with the public voting results published on their official website doesn’t agree with the results given via EBU by DIGAME.
The issue occurred in the second semi final in which Italy was eligible to broadcast and vote according to the January semi finals allocation draw. You can see the RAI document here.
In the identified mistake Russia should get the 8 points of the Italian public vote and not Norway as EBU attributed. This should apply also for Moldova, North Macedonia and Lithuania. In fact Lithuania would have been in the top ten which would have lead to a tie with Denmark and under the EBU rules it could result to qualification for Jurijus.
RAI TELE VOTING SECOND SEMI FINAL SEMI FINAL
16.08% voted for ALBANIA it should get 12 points – instead EBU gave them 12 points
10.39% voted for ROMANIA it should get 10 points – instead EBU gave them 10 points
09.92% voted for RUSSIA it should get 08 points instead EBU gave them 7 points
08,66% voted for MOLDOVA it should get 07 points – instead EBU gave them 5 points
08.58% voted for NORWAY it should get 06 points – instead EBU gave them 8 points
05.93% voted for SWITZERLAND it should get 05 points – instead EBU gave them 6 points
05.47% voted for NORTH MACEDONIA it should get 04 points – instead EBU gave them 1
05.40% voted for AZERBAIJAN it should get 03 points – instead EBU gave them 4 point
04.42% voted for MALTA it should get 02 points – instead EBU gave them 2 points
04.13% voted for LITHUANIA it should get 01 point – instead EBU gave them no points
In the case of Lithuania – Denmark tie for the qualification in the Gran Final the EBU rules resolve the ties with the song that received the most points from all the National Audiences is ranked the highest. This is something EBU obviously should answer the soonest possible.
