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Spain, the mess starts tonight

Daniel Motiño Camúñez reports:

The final details for the Spanish pre-selection were presented to the media in a press conference. Spain goes back a similar process as in 2007 when NASH got their ticket to Helsinki, however this looks still a mess for me.

The public TV-channel will (apparently, remember what happened two years ago) provide four galas in the next forthcoming Fridays, starting tonight at 22,15. The 24 artist will be divided in two semifinals where they will perform classics from the Spanish history of Eurovision or absolute #1 from the contest and this is where this got scary. What is a #1 for TVE? Song that won the contest? Or songs that hit the charts? This seems not fair to me since it is not the same to perform Congratulations as to perform Bandido or Modlitva. Either the performers picked their own song or this has been assigned to them (which I suspect) has not been clearly communicated; nevetheless TVE stated  that everybody is really excited with the experience and we are sure they are going to do great, we want to have the best Spanish songs and th absolut #1s of Eurovision There are plenty of ways to sing Congratulations (which is not a winner by the way). I still have the hope we could see singers performing same titles as they did during the casting, but knowing TVE and the people behind this ...I have doubts.

The first two galas will have 12 performers each, the jury will eliminate four of them and the survivors will be judged by the audience who will provide the first three tickets to the next round. Finally the jury will provide two more wildcards having 10 participants qualified to the second round. The third gala will have 10 performers only as not as we expected, they will not be singing two from the 20 selected songs each. Here we are again with Eurovision classics, it could have been worst to force them to sing with Karina, Massiel or Rafael. The best three chosen by the jury and the audience (how we do not know so far) will move to the final, where each of them will have to sing three songs, which makes a total of nine. Why selecting 20 songs if only nine are going to be sung? Who chooses which songs move to the final?.Again jury and audience will pick the next Spanish representative in Düsseldorf.

On a more positive side it has been confirmed that Daniel Diges will be presenting together the gala with Anne Igartiburu. The Spanish jury members are: the Venezuelan journalist and former jury from "Dancing with the Stars" Boris Izaguirre, the singer Merche "who was Luna in the Spanish final 2001", the expert in Eurovision Reyes del Amor (who is this person and why is he/she called specialist?) and finally the singer and composer Albert Hammond.

The list of 24 bidders are: the duets Alazán and Las Miranda; the male vocal group Auryn; the bands, Da igual, Don Johnsons, Sometimes and Sunami; the male singers, Baltanás, David Sancho,Gio, Pau Quero, Sebas and Sergi Albert and the females singers, Esmeralda Grao,Guadiana, Lorena Rosales, Lucía Pérez, María López, Melissa, Mónica Guech,Paula Marengo, Roima Durán and the mexican singer Valeria Antonella

I am wondering why TVE makes this mess full of questions instead organizing a simple process like last year on the same way as in another countries. Is it really that complicated? Lack of transparency and clarity.

Get ready for the show tonight on TVE.

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