The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has issued a statement on the results of the Eurovision 2022 voting.

APA reports that the jury found irregular voting methods in the voting of the jury of six countries participating in the second semifinal - Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino.

It was noted that the accuracy of the voting of both the national jury of each country and the audience who voted by phone or SMS is important for the success of the competition. is a debt to the service provider.

Any violation of the rules is taken very seriously.

In the second semi-final, four of the six judges placed the other five participating countries in the top five (assuming they could not vote for themselves).

One jury voted for the same five countries in the top 6, and the last of the six judges placed four of the others in the top four and the fifth in the top seven.

Four of the six countries received at least 12 points, which is the maximum number of points that can be awarded.

The model was considered incorrect by the European Voting Partner and approved by the Independent Voting Monitor, as five of these six countries were out of the top 7 by a jury of 15 other countries that voted in the same semi-final.

In addition, four of the six countries are in the top six of the other 15 countries that voted in this semifinal.

Violations of the voting rules of the jury on such a scale have not been registered so far.

It was noted that, as stated in the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest and the official voting instructions of the contest, if the votes of the National Jury are found to be illegal (as revealed by the European Voting Partner and confirmed by the Independent Voting Monitoring), It is possible to replace the automatically calculated substitute with a generalized result to determine the country's result: “Given the nature of the situation found in the second semi-final, the EBU, in consultation with the European Voting Partner and Independent Voting Monitor, decided to exercise the right to cancel votes. .An automatically calculated substitute overall result was used to determine the final results of the jury of the six countries participating in the grand final.

These decisions were approved in accordance with the requirements of the Voting Instructions of the Competition.

EBU also discussed the situation with the relevant broadcasters: “EBU reaffirms its decision to replace the votes of the jury for these six countries with a substitute overall result in both the second semi-final and the grand final.

EBU also confirms the final ranking of 40 participants in the Eurovision 2022 song contest.