“The foreign submitted participants have to declare by official statement to the Cypriot embassy of their native country that they are not competing in another European preselection”, the rules of the Cypriot Eurovision Song Contest selection state. So far, two of the selected songs reached the dangerous area…
Styg Nyard, writer of Things just work out sometimes, participates in the 2006 Latvian national selection and in Lithuania. Thomas Galkowski, composer of C'est la vie, participates in the Polish national final.
The question is if CyBC considers the song writers and composers as 'participants', or if they referred to the performers of the songs in this particular case. Most likely to be continued…!