Nadezhda Sargsyan, mother and producer of Emmy, is ready to dispute
the results of Eurovision 2010 national qualification

2010-02-20 14:23:00

ArmInfo. Nadezhda Sargsyan, mother and producer of Emmy, is ready to
dispute the results of Eurovision 2010 national qualification.

"We are not speaking against specific singers. The decision that Eva
Rivas will go to Oslo has already been passed and we are not going to
change it. We just want to know – who is that Intermob company whose
server received all the SMS messages during the voting?" Sargsyan said
during a press-conference today.

She has already received written answers from two of the three mobile
operators of Armenia, VivaCell and Orange Telecom, who say that
operators are responsible only for the forwarding of SMS to short
number 2525. The analysis of the data was the responsibility of
Intermob’s server in Kazakhstan.

Sargsyan does not agree: "As soon as we receive the answer from
ArmenTel (the third mobile operator), we will file a suit. What we
want is to know who that elusive Intermob is as, in fact, the Armenian
participant has been selected by that company," Sargsyan said.

To remind, during the national qualification Feb 14 the jury gave the
first place to Emmy & Mihran’s "Hey" song (68 points), Eva Rivas and
her "Apricot Stone" got 62 points, Ani Arzumanyan’s "The Mermaid Song"
– 45 points, Razmik Amyan’s "My Love" – 39 points. The results of the
SMS voting were different: Eva Rivas got 6,039 SMS messages, Razmik
Amyan – 1,877, Emmy & Mihran – 1,437.

So, Armenia will be represented by Eva Rivas and "Apricot Stone"
(music Armen Martirossyan, lyrics Karen Kavaleryan).