Norway: Alessandra Withdraws From Announcing Eurovision Votes

🇳🇴 Norway: Alessandra Withdraws From Announcing Eurovision Votes



by Horus_walking

24 comments

  1. > Alessandra has withdrawn as the Norwegian spokesperson will not announce the points of the Norwegian jury during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

    > Contrary to what was stated yesterday, the Norwegian broadcaster NRK has revealed on their website that Alessandra has withdrawn from her role as spokesperson for the Norwegian jury at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 due to the “inflamed situation” around the contest this year. Alessandra represented Norway at Eurovision 2023 and reached 5th place with 268 points.

    > Ingvild Helljesen, a television presenter at NRK, will be the new Norwegian spokesperson.

  4. Why a few hrs before the finale? Decision that Israel was participating was known long before. So what was the new input?

    Maybe sour grapes that Israel reached the finals? The affair with Joost? Or just attention grabbing at the most convenient moment for personal grand standing?

  5. When Zelensky wanted to give a statement last year during Eurovision, he was shut down from almost all sides. Yet, now everyone is bending over for Palestine with their bleeding hearts.

    So many crybabies, love it.

  7. Oh please. She had every opportunity to turn the presenting job down before this, but now that Israel is in the finals she’s throwing toys out the pram

  8. Victory for the Jews, may the light of space lasers shine bright!

    and you girl cope and seethe

  10. I fully understand many people’s sentiment on this topic (even if it comes hours before an event and probably months after they have signed a contract to take part in Eurovision…), but I still find it fascinating that there is a sentiment that individuals from another part of the world can somehow solve a regional conflict that has been going on for almost 80 years. The two parties to the conflict need to solve it and create the conditions for lasting peace and prosperity. Everyone else plays an auxiliary role.

  11. If there’s one group of people that I expect to understand world politics, it’s Norwegians.

    I’m joking, of course. We are babied by our government and most of us never actually mature past like 16. Oil generation Norwegians are the most immature people you will meet.

  13. If she wanted to boycott Israel from the moment they announced they would participate, kudos to her. But she’s withdrawing now when things aren’t going the way she wanted? Good riddance.

  14. This is starting to become so pathetic I don’t even know what to say.

  16. If only they could withdraw that Queen of the Kings song from the radio here in Norway, too. God, it sucks. Just a dumb Yas Queen song that pollutes my favorite radio channel.

  18. There’s apparently 10000 people protesting in malmo. The french act staged a protest too, apparently. I m going to sue r/europe for not giving me the news

  19. I’ve the esc in my calendar. glad that I didn’t followed it this year..

  21. – Eurovision is NOT Political

    – What did you think of Russia’s participation?

  22. Norway during WW2: Palestine calls (for the Jews)

    Norway now: GET OUT OF PALESTINE! Free Palestine!!

    Norway hates Jews and always has.

  23. You know what absolutely blows my mind about all of this? How willingly these people are drinking the Kool Aid. There is another genocide happening much closer at home Alesssandra, tens of thousands of children, literal children, are being deported away from their parents and their land right as we speak. Tens of millions Ukrainians are displaced, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been victims -deadly or not- by terror attacks against civilian targets. Bioweapons, attacks on energy infrastructure, the whole shebang. And to top all of that, the perpetrator is a country literally NEIGHBOURING Norway.

    If you want to shout free Palestine, go ahead, but you could at least mention the literally genocide of Ukrainians in the same sentence, no?

    There is not a gigantic campaign on Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram and other social media of course supporting the Ukrainians so I guess that’s the problem: if those social media are your only source of news outlet and the misinformation campaigns and astroturfing by state actors is as rampant and unchecked as it is right now you get a result as this. And that’s basically what Alessandra is saying by shouting Free Palestine and saying nothing about Ukraine. “I get my news only from social media” and politicians should really be listening to the message between the lines. Remove anonymity or set laws for social Media to be checked more and downright van Tik Tok.

    I hope Alessandra realises how much she’s being played rather sooner than later, best of luck to her!

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