Maltasong preparations revealed

OGAE Malta reports:

During an exclusive interview with Martin Gauci, Maltasong Board's secretary, held on Ogae Malta's "Eurovision Radio", some interesting facts about the meeting with the songwriters were revealed.

During the same interview held, few minutes after the meeting was over, Martin Gauci revealed the following points:

a. The present Maltasong Board committee members were ALL confirmed by the Minister of Culture, Hon. Francis Zammit Dimech and will serve for the second consecutive year.

b. Robert Abela's proposal, revealed last Sunday on "The Sunday Circle", that the jury might retain the option to change the singers of the finalist songs for Maltasong 2008, did not find a consensus among the Maltasong Board members and so the idea will be shelved;

c. Some songwriters proposed that songs should retain the points by the first (when songs are brought down to 50), second (the semi-finals) and possibly third (final) set of juries and these points will be accumulated throughout;

d. Many songwriters agreed that the final result should be a mixture of judges with televoting and not 100% televoting;

e. Various other songwriters proposed that 50 songs should be kept in the first phase (whether or not they achieve the 50% of the total votes);

Martin Gauci also revealed that the application forms for the Malta Song for Europe 2007 will be issued on Thursday 5th July 2007. Age limit will be between 10 and 15 - according to the EBU rules.