Don manages to “break the curse”! Latvia enters the Eurovision final

Great performances were also given by the great countries France, Spain and Italy, you can vote for the great countries in the grand final, in the semi-final they only presented themselves to the fans of the competition.

Bookmakers predicted that the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Israel, Armenia, Norway, Austria, Belgium, Georgia and Estonia will qualify for the final from the second semi-final. Latvia was in 16th place in bookmakers’ forecasts.

The audience decided that we will see Latvia, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Israel, Greece, Estonia, Switzerland, Georgia and Armenia in the May 11 final.

The beloved Eurovision participants of other years also returned to the stage – 2005 representative of Greece – Helena Paprizou, 2003 representative of Turkey – Sertaba Erener and 2008 representative of Sweden – Charlotte Perelli.

The host of the evening, comedian Petra Mede, also gave a musical comedy performance called “We Just Love Eurovision Too Much”. Contest managers Petra Mede and Malina Akermane do not hide that before Eurovision they met several times in rehearsals on the Zoom platform.

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Before the second semi-final, there was a large pro-Palestine protest in Malmö, fueled by Israel’s participation in the competition. Several thousand people participated in the protest. The audience in the hall also booed the representative of Israel.

The “Eurovision” costume fairy, who helps the contestants every day with sewing, improving, putting on, ironing costumes before the second semi-final, allowed us to see behind the scenes of her work.

Among the fans of the second “Eurovision” semi-final were also several Latvians, who came with both national flags and specially designed jackets.

Get all the information about the second semi-final of the competition, the final, guest artists and voting here!