RTP faced 'huge pressure' to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest, admits Nicolau Santos
The President of RTP's Board of Directors told the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Communication, Youth and Sport that the public broadcaster had been pressured to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest because of Israel's participation.
RTP faced "enormous pressure" not to take part in Eurovision, says RTP chairman
The chairman of RTP's Board of Directors, Nicolau Santos, said today that the organisation faced “enormous pressure” not to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest because Israel was participating.
Said in 2025: "When I sent 'Amar pelos Dois' to Salvador, he told me, 'I can sing this easily, but we'll never win'"
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In April, on Posto Emissor, Luísa Sobral returned to the day she wrote the song which, sung by her brother Salvador Sobral, won Eurovision in 2017. “There was a week left to submit it and I still hadn't written it. My son was crying a lot, so I remember saying to my husband: 'Take him, I'm going to the bedroom to write.'” To remember at the end of the year.
