Look how 'eurofans' come out from under the stones

RTVE's boycott of Eurovision has led to a lot of stale characters who had previously disparaged the festival in recent years – let's be clear: ever since the LGTBI+ collective gave it new life – now suddenly adore the contest and express it on social media. This is the case of the mayoress of Torrelodones, Almudena Negro, who in 2018 wrote: “Is today Eurovision's shit? It's not worth turning on the TV”. On the other hand, on this occasion she tweeted: “Half of Spain watching Eurovision through YouTube (infinitely better than TVE's broadcasts)”. Or we could recall the case of the Telemadrid presenter Antonio Naranjo, Ayuso's media squire. In 2015 he opined: “Eurovision is like mixing a bachelor party, a graduation, and the Freixenet advert, but wholesale. And full of in-laws.” The following year he called them freaks and suggested watching him on Trece. On the other hand, these days he complained that “millions of humble homes that cannot go out for dinner or to the cinema or concerts will be left without seeing a family show”. (As if streaming didn't exist, anyway). Just as in the mid-seventies a lot of very fascist characters suddenly declared themselves lifelong democrats, a couple of generations later these lifelong "eurofans" emerge, I fear they are quite ideologically related.

Meanwhile, an opinion piece in

El Mundo stated: “Europe likes Israel much more than Spain, the lesson for Sánchez from a Eurovision in which Bulgaria came to the rescue”. The same outlet, a few days ago, reported on the New York Times investigation that documented the Netanyahu government's large expenditure to influence the festival, as a propaganda operation. Starting to talk about love in this context is the equivalent of putting on rose-tinted glasses and screaming that "Europe’s living a celebration".