Georgian Eurovision Song ‘does not Comply Rules’

European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest, said on March 10, that lyrics of a song submitted by Georgia for this year’s contest in Moscow “do not comply with the rules of the competition.”

EBU said that the song ‘We Don’t Wanna Put In’ violates the rule, which reads: “The lyrics and/or performance of the songs shall not bring the Shows or the Eurovision Song Contest as such into disrepute. No lyrics, speeches, gestures of a political or similar nature shall be permitted during the Eurovision Song Contest.”

EBU also said that it had offered the Georgian public broadcaster to either to re-write the lyric or to select another song for the contest before March 16. No immediate response from the Georgian public broadcaster was available.

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