Last Saturday, the final of the Portuguese national final took place! Thus, the next representative of Portugal was selected!

Festival da Canção is the Portuguese national final for Eurovision. This year it consisted of two semifinals and a final. Ten entries competed in each semifinal, with five songs from each show preceding to final. The semifinals took place between 5 and 7 of March, whilst the final was last Saturday. It is noteworthy, that the final was co-hosted by Eurovision 2018 host Filomena Cautela.

Winner of the show was Maro with her entry “Saudade, Saudade”.

Today, the results of the semifinals were released!

Place	Entry	Jury	Public	Total
1	Maro – “Saudade, Saudade”	12	10	22
2	Os Quatro e Meia – “Amanhã”	6	12	18
3	FF – “Como é bom esperar alguém”	8	8	16
4	Diana Castro – “Ginger Ale”	10	4	14
5	Aurea – “Why?”	7	7	14
6	Fado Bicha – “Povo pequenino”	5	6	11
7	Norton – “Hope”	2	5	7
8	Valas and Os Astronautas – “Odisseia”	4	3	7
9	Kumpania Algazarra – “A minha praia”	3	2	5
10	TheMisterDriver – Calisun	1	1	2

Place	Entry	Jury	Public	Total
1	Milhanas – “Corpo de mulher”	12	8	20
2	Inês Homem de Melo – “Fome de viagem”	7	12	19
3	Pongo and Tristany – “Dégrá.dê”	10	6	16
4	Syro – “Ainda nos temos”	4	10	14
5	Pepperoni Passion – “Código 30”	8	5	13
6	Jonas – “Pontas soltas”	6	7	13
7	Os Azeitonas – “Solta a voz e canta”	5	4	9
8	Blacci – “Mar no fim”	3	3	6
9	O Vampiro Submarino – “Ao lado de mim”	2	2	4
10	Cubita – “Uma mensagem tua”	1	1	2

Maro – “saudade, saudade”

You can listen all the entries in our Spotify playlist!

Source: escportugal.pt

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