Romania, Montenegro question EBU overriding jury votes.

Two countries have questioned the European Broadcasting Union overriding their jury votes in the Eurovision Song Contest. which they maintain was done due to “irregular voting patterns” identified in the results of six countries.

Romania’s Head of Delegation Iuliana Marciuc told Telejurnal that the Romanian jury had followed all the rules set forth by the EBU, so were taken aback when their result was annulled. She describes phoning home during rehearsals to see how things had gone.

“I called Bucharest, I asked to be given the score, because up to that moment I didn’t know it and I asked for details about how the jury was organized in the studio,” she said.

“I learned that it was organized with all the rules imposed by the EBU, with the presence of a notary mandatory, [who arrived] in the studio before the jury members. The members of the jury could not communicate with each other. They could not talk. Each person signed his jury sheet. They did not even see the final result of the jury. We don’t know what the problem is with [our jury vote].”

Romanian spokeperson finds out LIVE at the same time as all of us about the "technical dificulties" that EBU reported last night.
This also happened to Georgia and Azerbaijan.

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Montenegro broadcaster RTCG also said in a statement, “After the information made on the Eurovision website that the voting of juries in six countries was contested at the second semifinal evening of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, we would like to inform the public that we have sent a request for clarification to authorized representatives of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

“[After the submission of our jury votes], they stated that the RTCG voting took place following the regular procedure, and after that it was duly certified by the EBU, and they saw no reason to suspect any form of irregularity and expect a detailed answer to that question.

“When it came to the final night, as the audience could see in a live television broadcast, the votes were announced publicly and the taste of our jury largely coincided with the ‘schedule’ of countries on the final table.”

The EBU replaced the jury votes from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Romania, San Marino and Poland with a “substitute aggregated result for each country” based on the results of other countries with similar voting records.

Source: Wiwibloggs