{"id":43083,"date":"2026-05-15T14:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/43083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:01:15","slug":"%f0%9f%87%b2%f0%9f%87%aa-montenegro-nina-zizic-spokesperson-for-eurovision-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/43083\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddea Montenegro: Nina \u017di\u017ei\u0107 Spokesperson for Eurovision 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nina \u017di\u017ei\u0107 will announce the results of Montenegro\u2019s jury in the final of the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Montenegrin broadcaster RTCG revealed that Nina \u017di\u017ei\u0107 will be the spokesperson for Montenegro\u2019s jury at the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. Nina \u017di\u017ei\u0107 has represented Montenegro at the Eurovision Song Contest on two different occasions \u2013 in 2013 with the entry \u201cIgranka\u201d, featuring the duo Who See, and more recently in 2025 with \u201cDobrodo\u0161li\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nina \u017di\u017ei\u0107 commented:<\/p>\n<p>It will be my pleasure to convey the points of the expert jury of Montenegro. It is certainly an easier task than evaluating the songs of the Eurovision finalists.<\/p>\n<p>The spokespersons announced to date are:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf1 Albania: Andri Xhaku<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa Australia: Dami Im \u2013 Represented Australia at Eurovision 2016<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9 Austria: Philipp Hansa<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea Belgium: Sandra Kim \u2013 Winner of Eurovision 1986<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddec Bulgaria: Vladimira Ilieva<br \/>\n\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf7 Croatia: Doris Pin\u010di\u0107 Guberovi\u0107<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfe Cyprus: Loukas Hamatsos<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddff Czechia: Dominika Ha\u0161kov\u00e1 \u2013 Represented Czechia at Eurovision 2022 as part of We Are Domi<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf0 Denmark: Sissal \u2013 Represented Denmark at Eurovision 2025<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea Estonia: Getter Jaani \u2013 Represented Estonia at Eurovision 2011<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee Finland: Jaana Pelkonen \u2013 Host of Eurovision 2007<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Germany \u2013 Wavvyboi<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 Greece: Klavdia \u2013 Represented Greece at Eurovision 2025<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Italy: Mariasole Pollio<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfb Latvia: Aur\u0113lija Ranc\u0101ne \u2013 Represented Latvia at Eurovision 2025 as part of Tautumeitas<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf9 Lithuania: Lukas Radzevi\u010dius \u2013 Represented Lithuania at Eurovision 2025 as part of Katarsis<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfa Luxembourg: Hana Sofia Lopes<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddea Montenegro: Nina \u017di\u017ei\u0107 \u2013 Represented Montenegro at Eurovision 2013 (featuring Who See) and 2025<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4 Norway: Elisabeth Andreassen \u2013 Represented Norway at Eurovision 1985 (as part of Bobbysocks) and 1996<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Poland: Aleksandra Budka<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf4 Romania: Eda Marcus<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf2 San Marino: Kelly Joyce<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea Sweden: Jakob Norrg\u00e5rd \u2013 Represented Sweden at Eurovision 2025 as part of KAJ<br \/>\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded Switzerland: Livio Chistell<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 Ukraine: Daniil Leshchynskyi \u2013 Represented Ukraine at Eurovision 2025 as part of Ziferblat<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 United Kingdom: La Voix<\/p>\n<p>After winning Montesong 2026, Tamara \u017divkovi\u0107 earned the right to represent Montenegro at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with \u201cNova zora\u201d (A new dawn). The Montenegrin singer performed eighth during the first semi-final on Tuesday 12 May, failing to qualify for the final. You can read more about Tamara here:<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/rtcg.me\/magazin\/eurosong\/eurosong2025\/844591\/nina-zizic-saopstava-glasove-crne-gore-u-finalu-evrovizije-2026.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawRz2e9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFSMWVyTXJldWRIVjd1SVAxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhuaDiaE7gNd0QfwnAexVsxIeg4XJ62mQlkrd5welJSERTjw4U_df4yahH_-_aem_opKOMuOGJTUzxgVQF8deqA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RTCG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>Montenegro debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest as an independent country in 2007, and participated until 2010 when they withdrew for financial reasons. They returned to the contest in 2012, and since then have mostly chosen their entry internally. Montenegro failed to qualify for the grand final until 2014, when Sergej \u0106etkovi\u0107 and his song \u201cMoj svijet\u201d placed 19th in the final. Their best result came a year later, when Knez performed \u201cAdio\u201d in Vienna. They have never reached the top 10, with Knez reaching 13th out of 27 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nina \u017di\u017ei\u0107 will announce the results of Montenegro\u2019s jury in the final of the 70th edition of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20858],"tags":[20859,20860,2788,27434,16520],"class_list":{"0":"post-43083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eurovision","8":"tag-eurovision","9":"tag-eurovision-song-contest-2026","10":"tag-headline","11":"tag-nina-zizic","12":"tag-spokesperson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}