Condemnation by the EBU for the “manipulation” in Eurovision

You will rememberperhaps, the revelation I made to you a few days ago that the chairman of the board of ERT, Konstantinos Zoulasin a meeting he had last February with the ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus in Greece, Stavros Augustidis, essentially announced to him the score that the independent jury will give to the Cypriot participation in Eurovision on the night of the competition. At least according to what the Cypriot ambassador had recorded in an information document to the Presidential Palace of Cyprus, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Interior, the government representative, the RIK and other official bodies. The issue raised a lot of reactions, given that we are talking about announcing the judgment of a committee that had not even been set up and whose members, according to the regulation governing the competition, must be independent of the broadcaster.