Conservative groups are threatening to block Switzerland from hosting next yearâs Eurovision by forcing budget referendums on potential host cities, saying the song contest is a âpropaganda eventâ that âcelebrates satanism and occultismâ.
Switzerland won the right to host the worldâs largest live music event after the Swiss singer Nemo triumphed in Sweden with The Code. The cities of Zurich, Geneva, Bern and Basel have all filed applications to host the five-day spectacle.
The Christian conservative Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland (EDU) party, however, has said it will seek to make use of the countryâs direct democracy system to put the bidding citiesâ loan applications to the vote.
âThe Eurovision song contest is a ghastly propaganda occasionâ, the EDU said in a social media post on Tuesday. âA country that provides a stage to such disgusting trash wonât elevate its image but merely showcase its own intellectual decline.â
Samuel Kullmann, a senior EDU politician, told the Swiss broadcaster SRF his party was disturbed by Eurovisionâs increasing âcelebration, or at least tolerance of ⊠satanism and occultismâ. âMore and more artists present openly occultist messages and underline them with respective symbols,â he said.
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