No, Gabry Ponte does not risk being disqualified by Eurovision Song Contest 2025. After the victory on Saturday evening in San Marino Song Contest, which allows him to participate in representing San Marino precisely in the European singing competition, the doubt has been advanced that two passages of the text of All of Italy They broke the regulation of the European Broadcasting Union, the organization that coordinates the Eurovision which this year will be held in May in Basel.
The Eurovision Song Contest has an apolitical nature by regulation. The songs that participate cannot therefore contain political references of any kind and in All of Italy It sings of “Blessed Santissima Craxi”, with a reference to the coins outside the Hotel Raphaël. There is also a quote from Red flag In “Next people ahead”.
“We have sent all the texts to the abbua because we know that there must be no political and religious quotes in the texts,” he said to Republic Denny Montesi, director of a voice for San Marino. «We had subjected two doubts: one concerns the fact that Gabry's song quoted Craxi and” Next people “, the other concerned the song by Giacomo Flights, who quoted theAve Maria. Ebu replied that both songs do not break the regulation. “
In any case, Ponte did not risk disqualification. The lyrics of the songs can in fact be adapted, as happened in 2024 with the piece of Eden Golan. In that case it was a decidedly more serious and controversial case.
Israel's competitor was supposed to present Octaber Rain. The text contained references to the Hamas massacre of 7 October 2023 and after protests and boycott threats it was changed in Hurricanekeeping the same music. Golan sang the piece like Octaber Rain Once returned to Israel, to Tel Aviv, as “prayer to bring home the kidnapped hostages.
