During the night from Saturday to Sunday, Slimane offered France a fourth place in the final of Eurovision 2024 in Malmö (Sweden) The singer of My love scored a total of 445 points. Where do they come from? The details of the votes, released this Sunday, allow us to know this precisely.
If we look at the televoting figures, we realize that the audiences of all the countries competing this year awarded at least two points to France, like the viewers of Australia, Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, Israel and the “rest of the world”, as this category is called, made up of votes from countries not participating in the competition.
The Armenians were the most generous towards the French star by granting him the maximum, 12 points. The Icelanders, Belgians, Serbs and Greeks gave him their 10 points, while Slimane gleaned 8 points from the Portuguese and Luxembourgers.
The Frenchman also received 7 points from the Slovenian, Norwegian, Danish, Cypriot, Lithuanian, Maltese, Swiss, Polish audiences, and 6 points from the Latvian, Georgian, German, Ukrainian, Moldovan, Swedish, Austrian, Croatian, Italian, St. Marinanese and Albanian.
The Dutch, Spanish and Estonians gave it their 5 points, and the Finns, Czechs and Irish their 4 points.
Four times “12 points” to juries
As for the votes of the juries, made up of five people per country, Slimane was honored with 12 points four times (Armenia, Iceland, Belgium and Slovenia). He won by 10 points from the Luxembourg, Norwegian, Danish, Cypriot, Latvian, Georgian, German and Dutch jurors.
Serbian professionals awarded it 8 points, their Greek, Lithuanian, Spanish and Estonian counterparts 7 points, and the Maltese, Ukrainians and Moldovans 6 points.
France collected the 5 points from the Swiss, Swedish, Austrian and Finnish juries, and the 4 points from the Croatians and the Czechs. The Polish and Irish jurors were happy to give him 3 points and the Israelis and Italians 1 point. It is still more generous than the Australian, Azerbaijani, British, Albanian, San Marino and Portuguese juries who did not award him any points.
12 points from the French public to Israel
Concerning the points awarded, the top 10 of the French jury was established as follows: 12 points to Portugal, 10 to Ukraine, 8 to Germany, 7 to Luxembourg, 6 to Armenia, 5 to Switzerland, 4 to Greece, 3 to Israel, 2 to Croatia and 1 to Lithuania.
French viewers awarded their 12 points to Israel, their 10 points to Armenia and their 8 points to Ukraine. The other countries favored by the French public are Croatia (7 points), Switzerland (6), Portugal (5), Italy (4), Luxembourg (3), Spain (2) and Greece (1).