The director of TV Slovenia has sent another open letter to the EBU, requesting comprehensive data on televoting over the past three years and calling for an independent forensic audit of the voting.
RTV Slovenia, or rather the director of Television Ksenija Horvat, has sent another letter to the reference group of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) related to the implementation of the people’s vote at Eurovision, in which it officially requests “comprehensive information on the televoting process at the Eurovision Song Contest, especially in relation to the performances in 2023, 2024 and 2025”, thus joining similar calls from colleagues from other broadcasters.
In addition, RTV Slovenia also calls for an independent forensic audit of the results of the telephone voting for the last two years, and for the EBU to present the results of the audit publicly: “Our concern stems from the obvious statistical irregularities observed in the voting patterns of Eurovision 2025, which – as in 2024 – seriously question the integrity of televoting. Without transparent access to voting data, claims by the EBU or its contractors that the vote was ‘valid’ only increase doubts that the published results may not reflect the true preferences of viewers.”
As Ksenija Horvat also wrote, similar concerns were expressed at RTV Slovenia last year, but the request for relevant information was rejected on the grounds that this was not in line with EBU policy and that this topic would be discussed at the next reference group meeting, but RTV did not receive the promised information about the results of this discussion.
Viewers who pay for their votes have the right to information
The Director stressed that EBU members are public media institutions whose primary mission is to serve the public interest. ” When commercial confidentiality and public accountability conflict, any withholding of information must be clearly justified and demonstrable. Furthermore, viewers pay to cast their votes in the expectation of a fair and transparent process, and therefore have the right to relevant information, especially when serious doubts arise about the integrity of the system,” she warned.
If the EBU is not willing to share any of the requested information, arguing that it is confidential or that disclosure would harm commercial interests, Horvat expects “an explanation of how disclosure could significantly harm the EBU, the ESC or its service providers – and why such harm would be more serious than the harm caused by the lack of transparency”.
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