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When Martin Stenmarck won the Swedish final in 2005 many Swedish fans were upset. They felt robbed, as it was the jury points that ended up giving him the victory despite that the viewers had another winner. Now the same thing happens again and Charlotte Perrelli is facing the fact that not everyone feels she deserved tonight’s victory.
Sanna Nielsen won the public voting, but the jury only placed her in third position with 74 points towards Charlotte’s 114 points. She was so far ahead that even a clear victory from the public wasn’t enough to help her get to Belgrade, but she might still be there: “The opinion from the public is more important than the points from the jury – but I might go down to Belgrade and watch it there”, she says to expressen.se
Sanna gets support from BWO who ended up in a total third position: “We have always believed in Sanna, it’s a great song that would have done well internationally”, they say to Expressen. When asked about Charlotte’s chances in Belgrade they feel pretty sure that she won’t do the double and win the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time: “She won’t be a disaster, but it has no chance to win”, Alexander Bard from BWO says.
The winner Charlotte Perrelli is of course happy that she won, but she also joins the choir of Sanna supporters: Sanna was my favourite and had I been able to vote, she might have gotten my vote”, Charlotte says after her victory.
Expressen.se is asking its readers the same question that was discussed a lot just after Martin Stenmarck’s victory in 2005: Should the jury votes be cancelled and Melodifestivalen decided only on public voting. Right now at midnight CET the result shows 62% in favour of doing that.
Last time Sweden was in this situation with a winning song not chosen by the televoters they didn't do well. Martin only recieved a total of 30 points and ended up 5th to last in Kiev! Time will tell if Charlotte will manage to do better than that, but first job seems to be to convince the Swedes that she is a rightfull winner who deserves their support in Belgrade.
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Add a commentDrop the juries!
The strange thing about the Swedish voting system is: The televoting is still running after the jury points are known!! And that might influence people's tendency towards one song or another. Many people might have thought: "oh well, Charlotte has gotten so many jury points already.... I will call for someone else now."
That COULD be the explanation why Charlotte didn't win the televoting. I think SVT should at least change the system so that televoting ends before the jury points are read aloud. But the best thing would be to drop the juries and barely rely on televoting.
I think having both a jury
I think having both a jury and public vote is good. The public vote does tend to be influenced a lot by how good the performers look, how many beers have been drunk at voting time, etc.
And this year I don't see the uproar. The public put Charlotte 2nd, so it feels rather fair that she's our contestant. In those cases where the public votes the jury's number one way lower, and the jury's number one still wins, I can see a problem, but not now.
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The public want somebody eles,the jurry somebody else..this is what always happen..i think that it was better to be 30% the public and 70 the jurry..
why?
becouse the jury knows music..who sing good ,perfomance etc
not all the public know music..and it is not good to say :"i like the song,for this reason i will give my vote"
you must see how the artist performed at the stage,how he sing..
perhaps it is true..that some songs who are blamed in the final national to be in a good place on Eurovision..
no one knows the secret of eurovision..
Why Bother With a Jury?
I don't understand why any country bothers having a jury and a public vote when the contest itself has votes from the public only. It seems the Swedish public know better than the jury. Sanna had the best song and was far and away the best choice.
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replay to Steve
Steve,i'm from Romania..and even here we have jury and public in final
for example in greece is only the public..i sow the final on internet was only 3 participated at the final....