Croatia She is the top favorite to win this year’s competition. Eurovision. That’s what the bets say, although since this Thursday a strong rival has appeared, Israel. And all because of an error by the Italian channel ‘Rai’.
During its broadcast, ‘Rai’ accidentally made the mistake of broadcasting the results of his televoting during the second semi-final of Eurovision 2024. And in them, appears Israel with 39.31% of the votes, hailing him as the great favorite for Italian viewers. In fact, the next country, the Netherlands, only had 7%.
This error has been echoed by the bets, which have pointed to the failure of ‘Rai’ and the chances of winning the contest for Israel have begun to rise enormously. After discovering what happened on Italian television, bets now place Israel as the second favorite to win Eurovision with a 19% chance of winningonly behind Croatia.
And this occurs at the same time that his participation continues to generate a lot of controversy due to the war conflict in which he is the protagonist in the Middle East. Israel, unlike what happened with the expelled Russia, maintains its participation after a decision by the event organizers.
A fact that is not shared by many of the spectators, who harshly criticize his performance and even in Malmö, where the contest is held this year, They booed Eden Golan, the Israeli singerduring his performance despite introducing canned applause.
Even certain countries have also joined this ‘condemnation’, such as the case of Belgium, where the network that broadcast the semifinal did not broadcast the part in which Golan acted.
Source: Lasexta
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