Montenegro will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest again next year. The country has been absent for two years, but will be back in 2025. The Montenegrin broadcaster RTCG opened registration for the national preliminary round on Thursday.
Montenegro first participated in the Song Contest in 2007. Since then, the country has appeared in the semi-finals twelve times, reaching the final only twice. Montenegro’s best result dates back to 2015, when Knez finished thirteenth with the song Adio.
During the last participation in Turin in 2022, singer Vladana failed to reach the final. In 2023 and 2024, Montenegro withdrew from participation because the costs were too high.
Before Montenegro became independent, the country participated as part of Yugoslavia and later Serbia and Montenegro.
It is not yet known exactly how many countries will participate in the Song Contest next year and whether the Netherlands will be among them. After Joost Klein was disqualified during the previous edition, AVROTROS stated that his next participation is not yet certain. The broadcaster wants to see changes at the Eurovision Song Contest organizer EBU.
AVROTROS will soon enter into discussions with the EBU about the disqualification. Earlier this week, the Swedish judiciary decided not to prosecute Klein for the incident for which he was disqualified. Source: nu.nl.
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