BNT, the Bulgarian national broadcaster has informed esctoday.com that Bulgaria will not participate at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest next year.

BNT has decided to opt out of the competion due to budget cuts and financial reasons.

In 2013 Stoyan and Elitsa represented Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo with Samo Shampioni.

Bulgaria debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 and is yet to win the event. The country’s best placing at the Eurovision Song Contest was in 2007, when they achieved a 5th placing with Stoyan and Elitsa‘s Voda!

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Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 22 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.