EBU and Jan Ola Sand have responded today to all accusations of voting irregulations or whatever may have or may not have been going on with the Azeri votes in each way. Were people paid to vote for them, or did or did not Azerbaijan vote for mother Russia. Read all about it on eurovision.tv here. Today however even Montenegro is wondering about their votes but could it be only that the new way of counting votes (not only the top-10 but putting in order all 26 songs) has caused these differences that first may seem a bit strange? Let's wait and see if EBU will release all votes and placements in all countries to set this all straight.
Meanwhile the Finnish jury told that they had actually a police around all time of the voting, and they couldn't even excuse themselves to go to the bathroom alone.... Serious stuff. Today also Kuunkuiskaajat throw some wood to the fire. They told there were asked to talk to the Finnish jury members in Eurovision 2010 to vote for a certain country and they would then do the same favour for them. And Kjell Ekholm, who was in charge for Eurovision 2007 in Helsinki, told that he has also been asked before this kind of favours, especially before televoting came along fully. What to think about all this?
End of the story. Not. The Fans love to complain and speculate and find even more conspiracy theories, I'm afraid. Even if EBU revealed that, based on all
criteria laid out in the Rules, the independent observers from PwC had
confirmed the validity of the result of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.
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