The honour of opening the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will go to Portugal. The 'five stage' draw process to decide the running order selected the starting country, then the closing country. Russia will perform last on the night. Then host nation, Romania were drawn into fourth place. The remainder of the draw was decided by broacaster TVR and the steering group.
The complete running order:
(position, country, artist, song title)
1. Portugal Pedro Madeira Deixa-me sentir
2. Cyprus Luis Panagiotou & Christina Christofi Agoria koritsia
3. The Netherlands Kimberly Goed
4. Romania New star music Povestea mea
5. Ukraine Nazar Slyusarchuk Khlopchyk rock-n-roll
6. Spain Dani Fernandez Te doy mi voz
7.Serbia Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika Učimo strane jezike
8. Malta Sophie Extra cute
9.FYR Macedonia Zana Aliu Vljubena
10. Sweden Molly Sandén Det finaste någon kan få
11. Greece Chloe Sofia Boleti Den peirazei
12.BelarusAndrey Kunets Novoyy den
13. Belgium Thor! Een tocht door het donker
14. Croatia Mateo Dido Lea
15.Russia Nastya & Masha Tolmacheva Vesna
The draw first chose the country to open the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, then the country that would perform last. Once these positions were known, the host broadcaster was allocated a position from a draw of the remaining slots.
Three groups were then created, from which the host broadcaster and steering group decided the order. The groups are divided into:
Group 1(deciding who takes position 2, 3, 5):
The Netherlands, Cyprus, Ukraine
Group 2 (deciding who takes position 6-10):
FYR Macedonia, Sweden, Spain, Serbia, Malta
Group 3 (deciding who takes position 11-14):
Greece, Croatia, Belarus
