Tonight, the second semi final of the FYR Macedonian national selection for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest was held. 16 acts competed and another eight were chosen by the jury an televoting to reach the national final tomorrow.
The following acts have qualified for the national final:
- Kaliopi & Naum – Rum dum dum
- Vlatko Lozanovski – Bliski do mene
- Aleksandar Belov – Sastano solzi izbrici
- Bravo – Devojiko
- Vlatko Ilievski – Najbogat na svet
- Kristijan – Nema da zboram
- Rock Agresori – Ding dong
- Dejan Trifunovski – Ljubovta doaga
The complete results of the semi final:
| Pl. | Performer | Jury | Televote | Total |
| 1 | Kaliopi & Naum | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| 2 | Vlatko Lozanovski | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| =3 | Aleksandar Belov | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| =3 | Bravo | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | Vlatko Ilievski | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | Kristijan | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | Rock Agresori | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | Dejan Trifunovski | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 9 | Nade Talevska | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | Patnici | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Jasmina Dimitrovska | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Stefan Cvetkovski | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| =13 | Filip Jordanovski | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| =13 | Venera | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| =13 | Amir Ibraimovski | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| =13 | Pampersi | 0 | 0 | 0 |
esctoday.com poll results
The runaway poll winner Kaliopi & Naum (49.3%) were the favourites of the telvoters and the jury. The only act who came close to their result, Aleksandar Belov (15.5%), also made it to the final and finished equal third.
FYR Macedonia has qualified for the Eurovision Song Contestfinal in every year with one semi final just to miss the top ten. Last year, Tamara, Vrcak & Adrijan would have also qualified according to the televoting as they finished 10th with their song Let me love you. However, the jury joker was given to Sweden eliminatingthe FYRMacedonian entry in thesecond semi final.
