Switzerland’s populist right-wing party wants to cancel the funding of the Eurovision final through a referendum

Next The final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Basel, Switzerland in the spring, has faced a headwind due to political reasons. The right-wing conservative Swiss Federal Democratic Union EDU has pushed through a referendum that attempts to cancel the 40 million euro funding allocated to organizing the five-a-side final.

They talk about it, among other things Today’s News mixed several the swiss people and the germans the media. The referendum is held in the canton of Basel and is binding.

On Sunday in the referendum to be held, it will be decided whether the canton of Basel will grant guarantee funding, with the support of which all side events outside the final will be organized.

According to EDU, the party has nothing against the music event itself, but it is concerned about Eurovision’s position as an event favored by gender minorities. EDU strongly opposes homosexuality, which it considers to be against the biblical order.

Newspaper information according to EDU has campaigned by distributing material that uses this year’s five-year representative of Ireland Bambi Thugin pictures and described the Eurovision Song Contest as “satanic” and “occult”. By Bambie Thug Doomsay Blue -song finished sixth in the final.

EDU is a small party with only one representative in the Swiss National Council. The country’s largest party, the nationally conservative and right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party SVP, also had a negative attitude towards financing the finals after the victory. In Basel, however, the party supported the organization of the event, and it has not joined EDU’s referendum project.

The organization of the final and the televising will not be affected by the cantonal funding or its cancellation, but Basel’s entrepreneurs are worried about it, because based on previous finals, it has been calculated that the city’s economy would receive up to 320 million euros in additional income due to the visas.