(Dagbladet): After Jamala and Ukraine won the Eurovision with the song “1944″ on Saturday, has not reactions yet to recover.
Many believe the song never should have won, and some want results audited . This is because the song could be interpreted as political, which according to the Eurovision Song Contest rules are strictly prohibited.
Yesterday began a video circulating on the Internet, claiming that the artist may have acted in breach of competition rules .
Performed premature
ESCToday, website writing Eurovision-related news, publicized case first. They write that song “1944″ first had the title of “Bizim Qirim” which the Norwegian translates to “Our Crimea”.
According to the website, part of this year’s vinnerlåt performed under this title, already a year ago. Specifically, on 18 May last year, which is the anniversary of the deportation of Tatars from the Crimea.
This is according to Eurovision rules illegal to perform the song before it is published ahead of the competition.
In section 1.2.1 of the rules states that “ESCs ultimately responsible shall decide whether such disclosure before the public the launch can give the competing part a benefit to the event vis-à-vis the second compositions. ”
The first opportunity to launch contest entries last year was 1 September.
Dagbladet has made contact with the artist’s manager, Igor Taranopolsky. Asked whether she has performed the song earlier, he becomes taciturn.
– Sorry, I can not talk right now, he told Dagbladet, before the call ended.
– Gave no benefits
Despite the clear regulations, this is not grounds to disqualify winners, says top manager of the EBU, Jon Ola Sand. They have today had a meeting about the situation.
– This does not mean that much. It is not talking about disqualify her because of the occurrence. She has performed with the song at a concert in front of a handful of spectators, is not enough to be disqualified. The main rule is that the song should not be commercially released before the date 1 September the year before the competition. The reason is that no songs will have a disproportionate advantage before the competition, says Sand Dagbladet.
He says this happens almost every year, and that they assess each individual case from year to year.
– We must realize that we live in 2016, and then it is difficult to avoid appearances ahead can leak on social media. The main competition is that it does not spread massively in advance and thus has gained an advantage at the forefront.
Was aware of performance after the final
EBU working on a new wording of the regulations to avoid creating confusion about the rules in the future.
Swedish Expressen has published parts of the press release that the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) sent out on Thursday morning devoted to the alleged infraction.
– The video shows a small concert and has only been seen by a hundred people, before it gained attention in recent days. EBU has therefore decided that the video did not give Jamala any advantage during the Eurovision Song Contest. Therefore, the song disqualified, according to the press release.
Jon Ola Sand told Dagbladet that they perceived performance by Eurovision final.
– Ideally, we got to know it in advance, but we learned about this performance after the competition. But still does not change the situation. The broadcaster was not aware of this. But they knew about another song in the national final with a similar starting point as they searched EBU to get in ahead of the national finals. It got the yes from us.
– Taking yourselves criticism that this has happened?
– No, we do not. This is a type of public performances, it is impossible for us to catch up in advance and thus avoid. Jamala thought probably not on this myself either. The song she uses Eurovision with differs from the one she performed last year at several points.
In addition, this happened at a closed performance with invited guests, no video, so the range has been minimal.
President of the Norwegian Grand Prix team, Morten Thomassen does not respond to the EBU decision.
– This has happened before, and obviously within the rules of the EBU. To act in front of a few hundred spectators, can hardly be called a commercial for the song. When Denmark and Emmelie de Forest uses a competition we had a similar situation. They asked EBU ahead and did so, before they won the whole Eurovision with the song “Only teardrops” says Thomassen.
He also mentions the Norwegian Eurovision entry ‘All my thoughts “from 1993, which was played on local radio for a long time before the competition.
ESCtoday also mentions a number of examples where former EBU has caused similar problems pass.
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