Yesterday the second semi-final of Eurovision was held at the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden. On this occasion, the gala was broadcast in our country on La 1 de Televisión Española and garnered a great 10.4% screen share and 1,285,000 viewers on average.
At the end of the performances of all the participating countries and Italy, France and Spain by the Big Five, the presenters opened the televoting to decide which would advance to the grand final next Saturday.
After an exciting vote full of nerves and expectation, Petra Mede and Malin Akerman announced the list of qualified countries: Estonia, Israel, Latvia, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands, Greece, Georgia and Armenia.
This morning, Alfonso Arús and his team commented on yesterday’s semi-final and talked about the controversy surrounding Israel’s participation in the festival. The La Sexta magazine has echoed the boos that the singer from Netanyahu’s country received in the stadium and has reflected on her real chances of winning the coveted crystal microphone, just as her compatriot Netta did in 2018. with the song Toy.
Hans Arús has announced to the audience that Nebulossa, the Alicante group that represents us this year in the contest, will perform in the grand final in position number 8 just like Blanca Paloma did last year. Both the presenter and Angie Cárdenas have expressed that it is a position that ”neither benefits nor harms us”, but Hans has highlighted that the performances at the end are always remembered more.
The collaborators of La Sexta have also spoken about the bets, which give the Croatian singer and his original Rim Tim Tagi Dim as the winner. ”We, when we have been there, have been told ‘oh, we are among the first’, then they have “It was a fiasco,” said Angie Cárdenas, implying that you can’t always trust this type of list.
Regarding our country’s performance in the contest, Arús has not had much to say other than wishing the artists luck, but he has used his peculiar sense of humor to comment on a scene from the beginning of the show: ”Above all, If we get out of a cage, let the cage open and there is no key to the padlock anywhere.
The communicator has also commented that, for him, the different setbacks that our country is suffering (a problem in the dancers’ costumes, a small injury to Mery, etc.) give “life” to the contest and its media coverage.
