The Netherlands: The majority believes that the country should not participate in Eurovision 2025!
The thriller of whether the Netherlands will be present at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland goes on, and will probably last until the very last moment, on September 15, the deadline for the countries concerned to register to participate.
The country’s national broadcaster, AVROTROS, has more than a week to decide. However, the Dutch branch of RTL conducted a poll and if the decision to participate or not was in the hands of the public, then the country would be out, as 58% think it should stay away next year.
After the controversial disqualification of the Netherlands despite qualifying for the final, the decision seems to be difficult.
Eric Dekker from AVROTROS commented that:
“At the moment, the talks are still ongoing. We’re taking everything into consideration and we’re not making any statements until a decision is made.”
According to the results of the RTL survey, 58% believe that the country should abstain, 24% believe that it should participate and 18% have no opinion on the matter.
Katja Zwar, eurofan and podcast presenter at Telegraaf, also chooses the abstention.
“As much as it hurts me to say, I hope we won’t participate just to make a statement. It’s not nothing what happened, we were unjustly disqualified, while we had scored high. You can’t undo it, but the EBU has to come up with something right to make up for it.”
On the other hand, media expert Mark Koster believes that the country will eventually take part.
“I’m sure there will be a half-baked lame excuse from the EBU just in time, which is just enough for the AVROTROS to participate anyway. And then the whole riot will have been for nothing.”
In the event that the Netherlands takes part, 47% believe that Joost Klein should be the representative again.
Source: RTL
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