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PBS, the national broadcaster of Malta, has 60 new entries discharged who take part in the national selection for the Eurovision song contest.  After the 2016 host of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, it is now high time to find out who will represent the island in Kiev.

The Maltese broadcaster has a selection of 60 songs made out of a total of 156 entries. Of these 60 numbers will 16 lucky ones get a ticket to the live final in February. The show will take place in the Mediterranean Conference Center where the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and the previous editions of the national selection. It was also decided to completely on the part of the viewer and the choice when voting only to take account of televotes.

Who makes chance to Ira Losco on to follow? View the full list of names and titles via this link. As always in Malta want to a lot of artists who already have several times participated in the preliminary round their chance. Franklin Calleja, Jessika, Deborah C, Raquela, Brooke Borg are so some of those names. Kevin Borg might be far can kick, he also took part in the Maltese selection and several times already in 2013 was the big favourite but finally in addition to the Grand Prize.