An online petition demanding a revision of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest result has gathered over 300,000 signatures. A number of people do not agree with the new way the votes were counted. Jury voting interfered with popular opinion giving victory to the Ukrainian entry “1944.” Russia came third with “You Are the Only One” and Australia, a non-European continent took second place with their entry “Sound of Silence.” Jamala RT reports: The petition ‘Make Eurovision Song Contest revise the results of the song contest 2016’ was submitted by user Arthur Hovhannisyan, from the Armenian capital, Yerevan, two days ago and targets the European Broadcasting Union. The author insists that the final outcome of the winning places went against the actual will of the contest’s viewers. Hovhannisyan writes in his petition that he is speaking on behalf of “the fans who do not agree with the results from Eurovision song contest.” Although he realizes the difficulties of jury voting and televoting process as being “hard and emotional one,” he nevertheless stressed that too many people cannot agree that this year’s official winner should have really been granted victory. “We have no doubt on the justice and privacy of contest that’s why we [...]
