In order to accomodate our readers who wish to watch the reruns of Saturday's finals, we will be reporting on the winners inside the articles. The Romanian final was held tonight in Bucharest the winner is Elena Gheorghe with The Balkan Girls.
Twelve songs competed tonight for the honour to represent Romania in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Although popular girl band Blaxy Girls won the televote as highly expected, the jury vote overturned the result and gave the ticket to Moscow to Elena Gheorghe with a cheerful dance song with distinct Balkan elements, The Balkan Girls.
These are the complete results of tonight’s show:
Performer | Televoting (Calls) |
Jury | Total | |
1st | Elena Gheorghe | 10 (3503) |
12 | 22 |
=2nd | Blaxy Girls | 12 (4861) |
6 | 18 |
=2nd | Catalin | 8 (2360) |
10 | 18 |
=4th | Zero | 5 (1322) |
7 | 12 |
=4th | Tabassco | 4 (1239) |
8 | 12 |
6th | Dalma | 6 (1834) |
5 | 11 |
7th | Tina Geru | 7 (2328) |
1 | 8 |
8th | Popas Band | 1 (612) |
4 | 5 |
9th | Red Blonde | 2 (878) |
2 | 4 |
=10th | Costi | 0 (528) |
3 | 3 |
=10th | Alin Nica | 3 (1178) |
0 | 3 |
12th | IMBA | 0 (463) |
0 | 0 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbR9IS1ERYU&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&rel=0
Live from the final:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6hfEAYEW_k&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&rel=0