{"id":181261,"date":"2025-06-13T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181261\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:10:15","slug":"%f0%9f%87%b2%f0%9f%87%b0-north-macedonia-nela-manceska-selected-for-junior-eurovision-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181261\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf0 North Macedonia: Nela Man\u010deska Selected for Junior Eurovision 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MRT has announced that Nela Man\u010deska will represent North Macedonia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025.<\/p>\n<p>13-year-old Nela Man\u010deska will represent North Macedonia at the 23rd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Nela was selected after auditions were held earlier this month in Skopje. She was chosen for her \u201cextraordinary vocal abilities, musical maturity and exceptional stage presence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>MRT has not announced yet how the song that Nela will perform in Tbilisi will be determined. They have stated that more details will be shared soon.<\/p>\n<p>Ana and Aleksej represented North Macedonia at the 2024 contest in Madrid, Spain. With their song \u201cMarathon\u201d, they finished in 16th place with 54 points.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Eurovision 2025<\/p>\n<p>Junior Eurovision 2025 will be held on December 13 in Tbilisi after Andria Putkaradze gave Georgia their record-breaking fourth victory with \u201cTo My Mom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A number of countries have either confirmed their participation in Junior Eurovision 2025 or signalled their intention to compete. These countries are:<\/p>\n<p>In addition,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eurovoix.com\/2023\/11\/23\/lithuania-considering-junior-eurovision-return-from-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lithuania<\/a>\u00a0is examining their return to the competition in 2025.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eurovoix.com\/2024\/12\/11\/estonia-will-not-compete-at-junior-eurovision-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Estonia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eurovoix.com\/2025\/03\/07\/germany-withdraws-from-junior-eurovision-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a>\u00a0have both withdrawn from the competition. The following broadcasters have confirmed they have no plans to return:<\/p>\n<p>Image Source: Vladimir Georgiev | Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mrt.com.mk\/node\/129564?fbclid=IwY2xjawK47TNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtskodMK_PP3o5IWGr24hX35kI7jvqawVWqPiv6jD8wG0RY2EdPqke_tWvMK_aem_EUb-eWafvpjAprpwbozqNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MRT<\/a><\/p>\n<p> North Macedonia was one of sixteen countries to take part in the first edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003. On their debut they were represented by Marija &amp; Viktorija with the song \u201cTi ne me poznava\u0161\u201d finishing 12th with 19 points. North Macedonia\u2019s best result to date is 5th place, which they achieved in 2007 with \u201cDing Ding Dong\u201d by Rosica &amp; Dimitar and in 2008 with \u201cPrati mi SMS\u201d by Bobi Andonov. <\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anthony-96x96.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Posted by:Anthony Granger<\/p>\n<p>Since launching Eurovoix in April 2011, it has been a pleasure to find out more about this amazing continent through the Eurovision Family of Events. From starting out as a small site, it&#8217;s been brilliant to see the site grow and flourish and continue to bring our readers everything from the world of Eurovision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MRT has announced that Nela Man\u010deska will represent North Macedonia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025. 13-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-181261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114676460742112458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}