Ukraine’s Eduard Romanyuta won the national stage and will thus represent Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 that will take place in Vienna in May, IPN reports.
Romanyuta was born in the Ukrainian town Ternopol on October 23, 1992 and is the laureate of tens of international contests. In 2013 he took part in the national stage of Eurovision in Kiev.
The Ukrainian singer won 12 points, namely 13,500 votes from the public and 10 votes from the jury.
The winner was awarded €3,000, which he said he would invest in staging the show for Austria.
On May 19, the young artist will sing in Vienna “I want your love”. If he passes the first stage, Eduard Romanyuta will compete in the final of the 60th European song contest on May 23.
Moldova’s Eurovision organizational committee made a number of changes to the internal regulations for this year and, for the first time, participants from other countries were also allowed to compete in the contest. Seven singers from the UK, by two from Russia and Spain and by one from Belarus, Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, Norway, Romania, and Ukraine applied to take part.
Organizational committee member Leonid Melnic in an interview said the gates for foreigners were opened after Europe also opened its gates and allowed the Moldovans to enter visa-free.
The Moldovan participants in the national Eurovision stage expressed their dissatisfaction with the contest results.
Moldova took the best position at Eurovision in 2005, when the band “Zdob si Zdub” ranked sixth with the song “Boonika bate doba”.
In 2014, Moldova’s representative Cristina Scarlat failed to qualify for the Eurovision final in Copenhagen.
