Representative of Spain in 2025, nine days after the festival final was held, has caused many reactions. One of the most prominent has been that of RTVE itself by denialing the singer’s claims that her contract prevents her from making political comments. This was assured on Monday. “I am not going to pronounce myself because I am not a politician, I am an artist and I am a singer. That the politicians clarify and speak, that for that they dedicate themselves to that. Once I did the Benidorm Fest, I am demanded by contract not to make political comments,” he told him when he was asked about Israel’s participation in the festival, one of the most controversial aspects of the contest in the last two years.
In a statement sent by social networks late on Monday, RTVE wanted to point out this aspect. “RTVE clarifies, given the claims of singer Melody, who at no time has prohibited from contracting any representative of Spain in Eurovision to make political comments,” says the message of the public chain. “It is the rules of the UER that establish that the songs, and only the songs, cannot include political content,” he says.
RTVE clarifies, given the claims of singer Melody, who at no time has prohibited from contracting any representative of Spain in Eurovision to make political comments. It is the rules of the UER that establish that the songs, and only the songs, should not …
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When this matter arose at the press conference, Melody said: “In addition to that I am not going to get into political issues, once I did the Benidorm Fest, I am required by contract not to make political comments, and I bring here written what is said in the contract.” And he proceeded to read a fragment that was written on a role: “The songs and candidacies that use inappropriate and offensive language, political or similar messages or gestures, which could be the risk of being expelled from Eurovision could be expelled,” said the singer. Actually, it is a fragment of the Benidorm Fest bases, where the proposed songs are required to respect the Eurovision norms, where there are no issues that include political messages, but that nothing says about singers or not make comments after passing through Eurovision. The singer ended her intervention: “I can’t say any of that, that other people have to speak, I don’t have to talk about it, mine is art.”
His refusal to position himself on the most controversial issue of the edition generated many comments on social networks. It is an issue that this year even by the words of the Spanish commentators during the second semifinal concerning the deaths in Gaza and the subsequent threat, by Eurovision, of sanctioning Spain if they repeated again.
“Above all, what I want most in the world is that there is love, that there is peace and that hopefully those conflicts in the world end,” said the singer reading a note and without citing the conflict of the Middle East or the presence of Israel in Eurovision. Israeli singer Yuval Raphael was this year in second position
