Romania’s public broadcaster has accused Eurovision organizers of double standards in a cheating allegations scandal that has dominated headlines for the past week.
Dan Turturica, TVR’s managing director, acknowledged Romania, San Marino, Poland, Georgia and Azerbaijan had awarded their marks in the semi final “ in a suspicious manner” in a semi final, but said they weren’t the only cases.
The organizers disqualified the six juries from taking part in the finals, but did not let them know, merely informing them that live conection where they were due to present their marks had been mysteriously lost.
Their votes were redistributed through an algorithm which TVR described as non-transparent and unfair.
Mr Turturica, however, said that the six were not the only countries who appeared to have formed an informal bloc to boost each other.
Sweden, Australia and Belgium had done the same he said, publishing their scores as evidence. However, they had not been sanctioned despite the “irregular voting patterns.”
These three also did well in the final benefiting from the EBU “algorithm” in which the six countries scores were redistributed he said in a post on Facebook.
He doubled down on accusations of that the organizers hadn’t been transparent and accused them of dragging their feet on going public with the allegations.
“We consider it unacceptable that the EBU applied double standards in the case of some countries where the way the marks were shared (also) raised suspicions” a statement said.
“What is more serious is that those countries benefited from supplementary points which were awarded by the EBU from the countries they sanctioned.”
