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On the 4th February, the Andorran national final for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest was held. During the programme, it was decided that Susanna Georgi will represent the country in Moscow with her entry La teva decisió and therefore become the sixth Andorran representative in the competition. -

Andorran Television has confirmed that it would be participating at ESC 2009 with a revised setup according to Oikotimes . Andorran Television will be fully in charge of choosing the person to represent Andorra in Moscow. The proposal includes a suggestion for three semifinals, which will involve both a Jury and televoting. After this there is a proposal for one final where the representative will be chosen.

ESC Today reports that Andorran broadcaster RTVA has not taken a decision on the country's participation at Eurovision 2009 yet, after this year's disappointing results. Creu Rosell, Head of Delegation of Andorra, said that the public broadcaster RTVA has not decided whether the Principality will participate or not at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Russia. Andorran Eurovision plans are now in stand-by and will remain like this until September, when RTVA is expected to announce Andorra's involvement or withdrawal from Eurovision 2009. Since Andorra joined Eurovision Song Contest back in 2004, the country has never been able to make it to the final. Their best result came in 2007, when Anonymous placed 12th in the semifinal. This year, despite the ambitious plans and big promotion that Gisela enjoyed across Europe, Andorra could not either manage to qualify for the final.

156 Greece 139 Armenia 135 Russia 106 Norway 104 Israel 096 Azerbaijan 094 Romania 079 Finland 072 Bosnia & Herzegovina 042 Poland 036 Slovenia 036 Moldova 027 The Netherlands 023 Montenegro 022 Andorra 022 Ireland 016 Belgium 008 Estonia 005 San Marino

Watch the show live here . Just looking around in the Arena before the show starts, it seems only half full. Show starts, two girls singing the Te Deum song, then a choir sing and a band is playing jazz music, "Congratulations" and "Waterloo" and "Volare". Couples painted in blue and red are dancing. Presenters appear. there is a very small audience. there are showing the countries that are singing tonight. MONTENEGRO: Great Presentation. Looks very confident on stage. Everything went smoothly, just missed a few camera shots, but a great start. Great reaction from the audience. ISRAEL: Big reaction when he starts. Crowd really love this. He starts in Hebrew and then in English. Another great reaction from the audience. ESTONIA: Muted response and a bit of booing for Estonia before they start. This better not go through. More booing at the end. MOLDOVA: Nice response from the crowd, but this is a no from me. SAN MARINO: This country makes their debut. Ni...

On 10th December 2007, RTVA announced that Andorra would be represented in Belgrade by the song "Casanova" sung by Spanish singer Gisela. MP3 version on the song available from allkindsofeverything.ie

According to ESCToday, the EBU has confirmed two of this year's 42 participating countries at the Eurovision Song Contest gave their points awarded by back-up jury. Andorra and Albania did not use the televote results because they did not meet the EBU's sight security level of calls. The two juries did effect the result of the Eurovision Song Contest to some extent. The most notable difference was at the bottom of the scoreboard, where Ireland, although finishing in last place for the first time in their Eurovision history, were spared the shame of the dreaded 'nul points' by the Albanian jury. France, who finished in 22nd place along with the United Kingdom on 19 points, received 12 of their points (two thirds) from the two juries alone: 4 points from Albania and 8 points from Andorra. The remaining French points came from Armenia (2), Estonia (2) and Lithuania (3). Of the two back-up juries used, Eurovision Song Contest winners, Serbia, only received one point (from A...

Netherlands and Austria, will participate in the 2008 contest depite rumours of withdrawal. NOS boss Gerard Dielessen recently confirmed to Eurovision site Belgovision.com that the Netherlands will never withdraw from the Eurovision, despite recent disappointing results culminating in another failure to qualify from the semi final by Edsilia Rombley in Helsinki. Austrian broadcaster ORF have also confirmed that Austria will be present in Belgrade, despite a 27th place in the 2007 semi final with Eric Papilaya. After selecting their participant internally in 2007, they are reviewing the different possibilities for choosing their song in 2008. Rumours also exist over a possible Andorran withdrawal, however the Andorran head of delegation recently said that the contest was "too important to promote Andorran music", so at the time it seems unlikely that they will leave either.