The future in Space in Eurovision It is close to determining. He RTVE Board of Directors will decide this Tuesday, September 16, it conditions your participation in the edition of One 2026 to the expulsion of Israelfollowing the path that public televisions have started Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland. The president of the Corporation will propose the withdrawal in case the European Radiodifusion Union Keep the Kan Israelí In the competition.
They have announced it Marta Flich and Gonzalo Miró in 1 during the premiere of Straight to grain. She has been the presenter in charge of communicating this information, after a day in which the demonstrations during the return have revitalized the media debate about the expulsion of Israel of great events while the genocide in Gaza is perpetrated.
“The conflict now puts the eyes in Eurovision. We can tell you that the Board of Directors of RTVE will meet tomorrow at 09:30, where The president of the Corporation will propose the withdrawal of Spain at the Festival if Israel participates”, Explained the journalist. At his side, Miró has pointed out that, if he determined in the vote, we would be“ the fifth country ”to take this position, the first of the Big Five.
RTVE sources consulted by Vertele They confirm that, indeed, it will be this Tuesday 16 when the Council will decide the position of RTVE on Israel and Eurovision. This comes after weeks and days of pressures of Summer In this sense, with the Minister of Culture, Ernest greaterpublicly asking the chain to withdraw from the festival if Israel follows. The last one has been this Monday, as we have collected.
José Pablo Lópezpresident of the corporation, will propose to follow the path marked by important chains in the UU as the Netherlands Avrotros or Ireland Rtéand leave the contest if the green light is given to Israeli participation. The directors, however, They will have to discuss and vote it.
RTVE, the Big Five chain that squeezes
RTVEmember of the Big Five and represented in the reference group of the UU with the presidency of Ana María Bordas, He led the pressures to the European broadcasting union from Basel asking for a debate among the members about Israel's participation. Something that was accentuated after the final of last May in Switzerland, where Yuval Raphael was about to win the festival.
In case of determining after the vote of the Council, RTVE would also be The first Big Five chain -The countries that most contribute financially to the Uuer- in positioning themselves bluntly against the participation of the Israeli Kan.
Not only that would also become the first 'great' to confirm that it will leave the festival – with what it is economic and audience – if Israel is not expelled from the next edition. A pressure measure that Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland and the Netherlands have led so far, and that with the positioning of Spain could push more broadcasters to join.