Spain: RTVE expresses willingness to host Eurovision 2023

Spain: RTVE expresses willingness to host Eurovision 2023
Sunday, 15 May 2022

  • The Spanish broadcaster, RTVE, has expressed their will to host Eurovision 2023 in case the winning country of Eurovision 2022, Ukraine, couldn't organise the event. 

    According to eurovision-spain.com report, RTVE has offered for Spain to host Eurovision 2023 after Ukraine's victory in this edition. This has been confirmed by María Eizaguirre after the grand final of Eurovision on the program of La 1. Speaking on behalf of the Spanish broadcaster she stated: 

    Supporting Ukraine in everything in that organization, in case they needed it, they would also be willing to host the next edition of Eurovision"

    At the moment it is too early to know which will be the next Eurovision hpst country. The process will begin in the coming weeks with the first meetings between representatives of the EBU and Ukrainian television, UA:PBC. 

    After the victory of the Kalush Orchestra, the country's president himself, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, showed his interest in hosting the festival in the country. In this case Kiev will be leaving the road open for Mariupol “in peace and rebuilt” to welcome the next Eurovision Song Contest as he stated.

    In this year's Eurovision Grand final Kalush Orchestra achieved to bring to Ukraine their 3rd trophy in their history with their song 'Stefania'. The Ukrainian hopefuls, came 4th in the Jury voting with 192 points but received a massive number of 439 points by the public vote and topped the overall scoreboad with a total of 631 points.

     

    News Source: Eurovision-spain.com

    Image: EBU / CORINNE CUMMING

     

     

     

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  • Angelos D.

    Angelos D.

    Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.