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The Icelanders on Saturday 11 March next year their choice for Kiev. That made the local broadcaster RÚV announced today.

There is no change in the design of the heat in comparison with last year. Twelve songs by to two semi-finals, on 25 February and 4 March, half of which will be left in the national final, which is scheduled on Saturday, 11 March. In the semifinals, the Icelandic viewers determine just the result in the final they get the help of a professional jury. The top 2 of the finalists for the super final, in which only the public again.

During the semifinals, all songs are sung in Icelandic . In the final may be switched on any other language in the same language, if they will sing at the Eurovision song contest. Foreign composers are not banned, but two-thirds of the composition and half of the text must be written by Icelandic citizens.

The northern European island has not yet broken a lot of pots at the festival. The past two times the country was eliminated in the semifinal, and since the first participation in 1986, only five times the top-10 of the final classification. The last time was again by 2009, when singer Yohanna (photo: EBU) silver picked up with Is It True?.