Year after year, the results are astounding! While Barbara Pravi nearly won victory last year at Eurovision – which would have ended the French curse since the last triumph of Marie Myriam – the 2022 edition of the singing competition was marked by the front – last place tricolor! Indeed, Alvan & Ahez only collected 17 points… A bitter failure.
On Twitter, the seductive singer Alvan took the floor this Monday, May 16, with his head rested, to comment on this penultimate place, which was very hard to take. “Thanks to @EurovisionF2 and the French who took a risk by sending such an experimental song in a minoritized language. I hope we made you proud“, he said. On stage in Turin, Italy – after Maneskin’s victory last year – Alvan & Ahez tried to defend the tricolor colors with the title Fulenn, sung entirely in Breton… With no passage in French, and even less in English, contrary to the vast majority of the countries in competition, hard hard to be understood at least by the voters. Host Stéphane Bern, who commented on the show with Laurence Boccolini, also strongly regretted the absence of French in the competition.
“Despite the result, the key word is pride. We remained ourselves despite the criticism, despite the pressure, despite the controversies about the fact that Fulenn either a Breton song, we haven’t lost the north“, for her part reacted her comrade, Marine Lavigne, with Tele-Leisure.
As a reminder, it is the Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra – whose members have already been called back to war against Russia – which won Eurovision. their song Stefania collected… 631 points! A small controversy erupted after the broadcast because Romania made it known that the vote of its jury had not been attributed correctly during the evening. Indeed, the 12 points of the country had to go to Moldova and not to Ukraine. “We were unpleasantly surprised to find that the vote did not factor into the final standings, with the organizers awarding another set of marks to the competitors in the final. We specify that the Romanian jury has decided to award the maximum score to the representatives of Moldova“, said the Romanian public television TVR. Depending on the response that will be given to it by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organizing body of Eurovision, it reserves the right “take steps to correct the situation“.
As related The Parisian“overnight from Saturday to Sunday, the EBU pointed to ‘certain irregular voting patterns identified in the results of six countries’ in the second semi-final and the final. She did not specify which States were concerned or if these irregularities could have consequences on the final classification. ‘The EBU takes any alleged attempt to manipulate the vote in the Eurovision Song Contest very seriously.’“