Romania: The jury has concluded for the first part of the Selecţia Naţională 2022 semi-final!

Romanian broadcaster TVR has announced that the jury’s vote which will determine the songs from the first part of the Selecţia Naţională 2022 semifinal that will be passing to the next stage has been completed.

The jury has been tasked to rate all 45 candidates competing for a place in Saturday’s second part of the semifinal. 15 of them will win the ticket for the second part of the semifinal, provided that the public did not also choose them.

Specifically, the public voting for the first part of the semifinal will start tomorrow afternoon at 19:00 CET, with the public choosing 5 songs for the second part of the semi on Saturday. The 15 songs that emerged after the jury vote will be the 15 songs that scored the highest in the juries and that, at the same time, did not make it into the audience’s top 5.

We remind you that the songs bidding to represent Romania are the following:

• Alex Parker & Erik Frank & Bastien – “Best of me”
• Aldo Blaga – “Embers”
• Alexa – “Hoodies and cold nights”
• Alina Amon – “Without you”
• Ana Lazăr – “Youngster”
• Andra Oproiu – “Younique”
• Andrea Stocchino – “Avere paura” (To be afraid)
• Andrei Petruş – “Take me”
• ARIS – “Do Svidaniya” (Goodbye)
• Ayona Iordănescu – “Let me come to you”
• Bogdan Dumitraş – “Sign”
• Carmen Trandafir – “Măşti” (Masks)
• Cezar Ouatu – “For everyone”
• Ciro De Luca – “Imperdonabile” (Unforgivable)
• Claudia, Minodora, Diana – “România mea” (My Romania)
• Dan Helciug – “241”
• Dora Gaitanovici – “Ana”
• E-an-na – “Malere”
• Eliza G – “The other half of me”
• Eugenia Nicolae – “Doina”
• Fabian Ferrara – “That way”
• Forţele de muncă – “Hai afară, frate!” (Come out brother!)
• Gabriel Basco – “One night”
• Giulia-Georgia Beiliciu – “Find your way”
• Ivelin Trakiyski – “Neverending”
• Jessie – “Regret”
• Kyrie Mendél – “Hurricane”
• Letiţia Moisescu – “Mirunica”
• Leyah – “I’ll be fine”
• Mălina – “Prisoner”
• Miryam – “Top of the rainbow”
• MOISE – “Guilty”
• Oana Tabultoc – “Utopia”
• Olivia Miheţ – “Fragile”
• Othello – “You’re worthy”
• Outflow – “Running in circles”
• Petra – “Ireligios” (Irreligious)
• Popa Roberta-Maria – “Indigo”
• Romeo Zaharia – “Until the fight is over”
• Silvia Costache – “Save me”
• Sophia – “Beautiful lies”
• Stelian – “Remember”
• VANU – “Never give up”
• Vizi Imre – “Sparrow”
• WRS – “Llámame” (Call me)

The second part of the semifinal will be held this Saturday, February 12 and will be televised. The jury will select ten songs to advance to the final.

In the final, which will take place on March 5th, the winner and Romania’s representative in Turin will be determined by a combination of public and jury voting.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Romania’s participation in Eurovision 2022!