Our last podcast is about Benidorm Fest. Its director, César Vallejo, answers issues about the future of the contest for more than an hour. Among others, if RTVE President José Pablo López likes Eurovision.
Today José Pablo himself has made it clear in the Mixed Parliamentary Control Commission. There, his long response to Vox attacks has been viralized in networks (“we are not to bleach or exalt Francoism”), but has also spoken long and lying on Eurovision. Before the question raised about the participation of Spain, formulated by a senator of the Basque Parliamentary Group, he said: “As a Eurofán that I am, I am not very issuing Eurovision, but there are issues that are above entertainment,” he has settled, as reported by seeing him.
José Pablo López has explained that the decision has already been taken that Spain will not participate in Eurovision if Israel does, after several of its requests to the Uuer. “If we have reached this point it is because we have previously exhausted a series of negotiations and proposals that we see that they fall into a broken bag with the policy that has been developed in the Uue That Israeli television of the UER is expelled, it has simply been reiterated that it is not given visibility in the contest ».
The president hopes that the UUR reconsider these weeks and it is not necessary to reach the December vote. “I hope that for the sake of the UUr we do not have to reach this point of subjecting the entire structure to the tension of a final vote due to the decision of some managers who have not assumed their responsibilities and have not taken a step forward at this point.”
And in addition, López believes that Israel can win in 2026, if the circumstances of 2024 and 2025 are repeated: “We are all aware that the Eurovision Festival is not a mere festival of songs, it is more than a festival of songs. The political burden it has is enormous and good proof is what has happened in recent years. We all know it, it knows it, it knows it. And that is why, if nothing changes, it is very likely that the song that Israel represents can win the victory this year at the Vienna Festival. ”
As for the controversial decisions of the Uuer, it is explained: “The argument is really surprising that the Uer is displaying to defend the presence of Israel’s public television, because it is a television that, manifestly, continuously, is supporting all the actions of the Israel army in Gaza.”
