Eurovision 2025: Spanish Broadcaster to Request Audit After Surge in Israel Votes

RTVE has published on Tuesday the contents of the letter that the public corporation has sent to the European Broadcasting Union (ERU), organiser of Eurovision, requesting an independent audit and a “complete review” of the voting system in the contest. The letter is signed by José Pablo López, president of RTVE, and is addressed to the general director of the UER, Noel Curran, and to the general director of Eurovision, Martin Green. In it, the …

Several television stations will have investigated the voting at this year's Eurovision. This is reported by the Norwegian media NRK. In the final, Israel received the most viewer votes and came in second place at this year's Eurovision...

Israel won second place in Eurovision on 17 May, thanks to the public points. A disputed choice, notably by elected officials Unsuspected France who speak of cheating. If the votes in favour of Israel have changed radically since 7 October, these accusations are unfounded. - VERIF' - Eurovision 2025: accused of being rigged, how does the public vote that went to Israel work? (Culture, media and entertainment).

In the Eurovision final, the same voter was allowed to cast their vote twenty times. Israel campaigned prominently with videos urging people to vote for the country multiple times.

Flemish broadcaster VRT is following its Spanish counterpart RTVE in requesting that the EBU conduct an investigation into how the voting for Israel's entry in this weekend's Eurovision Song Contest was conducted, writes Belgian HLN. The broadcasters believe that the large difference between jury votes and viewer votes raises questions about whether the voting was conducted properly.

Eurovision 2025: Spanish broadcaster to request audit after surge in Israel votes

RTVE, which courted controversy with its openly anti-Israel stance during its coverage of the competition, reportedly harbours ‘doubts’ about the validity of the public vote.