{"id":80609,"date":"2025-11-17T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=80609"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:08:38","slug":"malta-kiest-kandidaat-voor-wenen-op-17-januari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/landen\/mt\/malta-kiest-kandidaat-voor-wenen-op-17-januari\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta kiest kandidaat voor Wenen op 17 januari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-p-lead\">Witte rook vanop het eiland Malta: de plaatselijke preselectie\u00a0<em>Malta Eurovision Song Contest\u00a0<\/em>ofwel\u00a0<em>MESC\u00a0<\/em>wordt in januari 2026 afgewerkt over twee liveshows.<\/p>\n<p>Omroep <a href=\"https:\/\/maltaeurovision.mt\/applications-open-for-mesc-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TVM<\/a> meldt dat de inschrijvingen vandaag zijn geopend. Veel tijd om in te dienen is er niet, want nu <strong>zondagavond 23 november<\/strong> al is de deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Een commissie selecteert vervolgens achttien kandidaten die op 1 december worden bekendgemaakt. Ze nemen het tegen elkaar op in de halve finale van\u00a0<em>MESC 2026<\/em>, die doorgaat op <strong>donderdag 15 januari.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Het Maltese publiek beslist samen met een vakjury welke zes artiesten afvallen. In de finale van twee dagen later, op <strong>zaterdag 17 januari<\/strong>, zijn slechts twaalf plekken. Die avond wordt beslist wie Malta zal vertegenwoordigen op het Songfestival 2026 in Wenen.<\/p>\n<p>Malta debuteerde in 1971 op het Songfestival maar won tot dusver nog nooit. Dit jaar kwam <strong>Miriana Conte<\/strong> <em>(foto)\u00a0<\/em>niet verder dan een 17e plek met het weinig aan de verbeelding overlatende\u00a0<em>Serving<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-embed=\"povnGP6k0sI\" data-time=\"0\">\n<div class=\"play-button\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"play-button\" alt=\"play\" src=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/themes\/songfestival\/img\/play.svg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van achttien naar twaalf kanshebbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[7117,7171,6020,6021,2807,2113,254,6633,7079,3052,6626,3400,6628,219,17,6630,4925,4926,6309,6627,6909,19,6634,7170,6624,6632,6631,2216,6625,6629,1291,591],"class_list":["post-80609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt","tag-basel","tag-bazel","tag-belgie-eurosong","tag-belgie-songfestival","tag-esc","tag-esf","tag-eurosong","tag-eurosong-2024-belgie","tag-eurosong-2025","tag-eurosong-belgie","tag-eurosong-zweden","tag-eurosongfestival","tag-eurosongfestival-2024","tag-eurovisiesongfestival","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-sweden","tag-gastland-songfestival","tag-gaststad-songfestival","tag-gustaph","tag-loreen-eurovision","tag-nemo","tag-songfestival","tag-songfestival-2024-belgie","tag-songfestival-2025","tag-songfestival-zweden","tag-stockholm-eurosong","tag-stockholm-songfestival","tag-suisse","tag-sweden-2023","tag-sweden-songfestival","tag-switzerland","tag-zwitserland"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"fr","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80611,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80609\/revisions\/80611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}