2024-05-11 23:36:00
Switzerland’s victory ultimately came as a surprise, as the Croatian candidate Baby Lasagna had recently been considered a much bigger favorite. He now ended up in second place with a certain respectable gap. While Switzerland received 591 points, Croatia received 547. Ukraine followed at a distance in third place with 453 points.
With his mixture of rap, opera and Queen paraphrase, Nemo turned out to be the clear favorite of the international juries, who clearly voted the act from Switzerland in first place with 365 points. Croatia was only able to score 210 points and came in behind France with 218 points in the pure jury ranking. When it came to the audience, however, Croatia was clearly ahead, but that was no longer enough to catch up with Switzerland’s lead.
Switzerland’s triumph in Sweden marks the country’s third victory in the competition. The ESC, the world’s largest music competition, is broadcast in dozens of countries worldwide – from Australia to the North Cape. Every year around 150 million people watch the final round of the show alone.
At the same time, the ultimately clear vote for Nemo is also a sign once morest the recent strong politicization of the competition and for music. Above all, Israel’s participation in the middle of the Gaza war caused some angry protests within the ESC bubble, but also in the city of Malmö itself. After there had already been a large anti-Israel demonstration in the city on Saturday followingnoon, during which, among others, “Fridays for Future” icon Greta Thunberg was taken away, there were loud protests in front of the event hall shortly before the start of the final.
A few hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators greeted the ESC spectators with chants of “Shame on you.” In the hall itself, the Israeli singer Eden Golan, who ultimately ended up in fifth place thanks to a high audience rating, was always accompanied by massive whistles and boos during her performances.
Added to this was the surprising exclusion of the Netherlands due to an incident with the singer Joost Klein. According to the Dutch TV channel Avrotros, the background was an aggressive gesture by the artist towards a camerawoman. Klein filmed this once morest his will following a performance. However, the police started an investigation into why Klein’s appearance was inappropriate, the organizers said. The Dutch public broadcaster has now filed a formal complaint once morest the exclusion.
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