Yesterday TVE and its expert jury disqualifed one of the songs selected by them to compete in the Spanish Eurovision national final, and replaced it with Lorena C and the song Piensa Gay. This triggered a series of accusations that the entry did not abide by the EBU rules as it was performed ealier than the 1st of October 2007. esctoday.com contacted RTVE about this matter.
The song that replaced yesterday's disqualified entry in the Spanish Eurovision Song Contest national final has found itself under investigation today with a risk of disqualification. Lorena's entry Piensa Gay was apparently performed in Madrid at the Pride festival last summer.
esctoday.com has spoken to RTVE about this latest round of accusations. Unlike yesterday's problems with Null System, Lorena had made RTVE aware that a demo version of the song was performed at the festival, but the song has been substantially changed along with the lyrics since then. The song was finalised and has never been commercially released or performed in its new state.
As such, esctoday.com believe that it will be allowed to participate and would not be disqualified. The same issue was faced by Hungary in 2007, after a few lines of the song had been sung in Hungarian during a reality television show the performer, Magdi Rusza, sung in.
We will of course publish the official decision of the RTVE committee, but esctoday.com expects that the song will not be withdrawn.
