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Despite the fact that he had been announced as spokesman for the jury,

finally fell out of the call.

has announced this Wednesday the eight members of the professional jury for the

, which will be held on January 31 and February 2 and 4.

Increase by three the number of professional names whose vote will have a weight of 50% in the election of the candidate to represent Spain in

.

The other 50% will be decided by the public, divided equally between televoting and poll jury.

In the event of a tie, the application that receives the best score from the professional jury will win.

All the members of the professional jury are linked to music and the European festival from different spheres, and finally the public body has appointed

, director of the

academy in its first editions and who participated in

in 1989, as its spokesperson.

These are the eight members of

for the

.

Christer Bjorkman

Member of the

and

production team , he has been responsible for

(2002-2021), the Swedish pre-selection, for almost two decades.

Representative of Sweden as a singer in 1992, he has also been artistic producer of

in its 2013, 2016 and 2017 editions and producer of

in 2019.

tali eshkoli

Israeli television producer and head of Israel's delegation to

.

She is the coordinator of the 2019 edition held in Israel, she has also been executive producer of the 70th anniversary pageant of

and executive producer of ceremonies and official broadcasts for the State of Israel.

Nicola Caligiore

He has been the head of the Italian delegation at

for eight years;

member of

six years;

and member of

for four years.

In addition, he is responsible for the successful return of Italy to

in 2011, the date from which the transalpine country has not dropped from the top positions in the final.

Katrina Leskanich

Singer and leader of the group

, who represented the United Kingdom in 1997 and won the edition held in Dublin with the song

.

She is a great song star of the 80s, who has achieved several international hits such as

(1985),

,

or

.

William Lee Adams

Founder and director of wiwibloggs, the European reference media specialized in Eurovision.

A presenter and host for BBC Radio, he currently presents BBC Minute, the BBC World Service's leading youth news programme, which runs

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