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OGAE fans vote Serbia
Molitva wins in Italy
Italy, though no longer competing in the contest, is a long-standing and respected member of the Eurovision community with an entry history stretching right back to the beginning of the contest in 1956. Many fans long for the country's return to the Eurovision Song Contest, and there is still a very strong core of fans based in Italy, many of whom contributed to the OGAE vote.
Marija Serifovic won both the semifinal and final vote from Italian fans, with Switzerland's Vampires Are Alive taking runner-up position in both events as well. Joining Serbia and Switzerland in the final were Iceland, Belarus, Cyrpus, Georgia, Denmark, Hungary, Moldova and Andorra. The full vote for the final was as follows:
- Serbia
- Switzerland
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Iceland
- Belarus
- Russia
- Cyprus
- Georgia
- Hungary
- Denmark
- Spain
- Armenia
- Moldova
- Andorra
- Greece
- Finland
- Ukraine
- Romania
- Germany
- Sweden
- Ireland
- United Kingdom
- France
- Lithuania
The full semifinal results was as follows:
- Serbia
- Switzerland
- Iceland
- Belarus
- Cyprus
- Georgia
- Denmark
- Hungary
- Moldova
- Andorra
- Bulgaria
- Slovenia
- FYR Macedonia
- Malta
- The Netherlands
- Croatia
- Estonia
- Israel
- Poland
- Austria
- Montenegro
- Albania
- Czech Republic
- Portugal
- Norway
- Belgium
- Turkey
- Latvia
Interestingly, the only Italian language song this year - Latvia's Questa notte - limps in at last place in the Italian vote.
Taking the Italian top ten and translating the points into the standard Eurovision score format (1-8, 10 and 12 points) for the overall OGAE leaderboard, several songs shift. For one, Hungary sees its very first marks, entering the chart with 2 points and leaving the nil points zone. Bosnia and Iceland both land on 8th place, a boost for the Bosnian entry in particular, which had been lagging just outside the top ten.
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now for serious note i hope united kingdom win it for a change.
Hey people, listen up todays greeks came as danai from egypt, new coming conquerors of the Balkans - Danaians, i.e. in the "Iliad" is portrayed a happening that occurred in 1193 - 1183 B.C. that is according to the famous alexandrian scientist Eratosten (III century B.C. so greek wakeup with your bullshit.
by the way DNA also tells this fact danai ethiopians todays greeks dna found to be ethiopian what an concidental contradiction todays greek are, by the way (greece is not a mediterranean country but middle eastern) thanks for time you spent reading this short note. hope you people understand the bullshit that goes around at this site .
Molitva'll win the Grand Final too.GO MARIJA GO MOLITVA... 
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Italy doesn't like "Questa notte" because the lyrics are quite banal, the music is old fashionated and their voices aren't so great as opera singers....!!!!
Finally some living proof that it isn't ONLY Serbian immigration and diaspora that likes the Serbian song. Unless of course us Serbs have infiltrated EVERY decision making body in Europe, including OGAE communities, hehe. What nonsense.
Thanks Italy for recognising quality. Go get them ALL, Ms Serifovic, we're behind ya.
No wonder that Latvia is last . Italians probably had a good laugh with those Latvians and their attempt to be Italians.
That is strange! Latvia is in the last position with an Italian song!
Anyway, first place for Serbia is good!
@darko
you're just an ignorant pathetic creature...
Grazie tante! Ci vedremo in 2008?
@Cristina
don't worry i was only joking. we love Italy here as well waiting for you to come back at Eurovision !!
Turkey 27th in the semi-final? What does King Kong have to say about that?
Molitva, sorry!!
Where can I hear the English version of Mlitve, Destiny?
great choice for a winner OGAE Italy 
and Italy please come back to ESC 2008 
...What year this is gonna be..Serbia has the most beautiful song,I love also Macedonian song ,and a little Slovenian song,but i`m very dissapointed with Croatian song,it will be like voting for the EURO
2012 recently,few days ago...Croatia 0 points..what a pity....and
what to tell about Montenegro song..well better say nothing..don`t deserve even to mention...also like Cuprys...and
i must say..UK,Sucks!!...what a groteska is it...Well done Serbia!!!!!!!!!!
grece people ARE IN BLOOD CONNECTION WITH TURKY PEOPLE,SO THEY ARE LIKE BROTHERS WITH HIM!!!!!!!AND THAT IS WAY grece's ARE WITH DARK SKIN LIKE GIPSYS...SO I DON'T THINK THAT they ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE ANTIC MACEDONIANS.ON THE OTHER HAND WE MACEDONIANS ARE WITH WHITE SKIN LIKE THE AUTHENTIC ANTIC MACEDONIANS!!!!
why bother about their opinion at all? they are not going to vote anyway....although Serbia on the top would be very good..
wel sorry but in that picture with the glasses on she looks funny to me. maybe she s a funny person in life
I'm glad that italian fans voted Latvia as last, this song really sucks! France and Spain (our closest neightbours9 did not collect many votes, i'm surprised about Serbia winning
@king kong
which one is more beautiful- marija or evridiki ??
The song is good, but how can a club support quality and vote it at the top, while voting quite the opposit ( cheap, childish nonsense ) at # 2 ?
@cristina
you're italian lol.. i'm ashamed now hehe.. u can keep on eating kebap and i'll eat pizza hehe..
@ Hermès - No, we're not angry at France! I love your song and I'm not the only one. Good luck France!
@ Chi chi - As you don't care about our opinion, we'll stop eating kebab... ;-) Just joking!
The only song in Italian this year and they have it on last place of semifinal, how strange.
anyway, who cares about italo opinion ?!? they dont even participate lol i'll keep eating pizza
It's nice to see the Italian voters like our song this year - I'm a little surprised but truthfully I have no idea what popular music in Italy is like, aside from Paola and Chiara.
And Marija Serifovic, darling, congratulations again! I'd hate to come across you in a dark alley at night but your personality is wonderful and you're representing your country very, very well - especially in the rest of the former Yugoslavia. So bravo, and thank you, for that.
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