The first semi-final of Portuguese national selection for Eurovision Song Contest 2021 – Festival da Canção 2021 starts tonight we already informed you about the safety measures which RTP prepared HERE  and HERE you can find the judges who will be carrying the 50% of the votes while the other 50% goes to televote.  First semifinal will be hosted by Jorge Gabriel and Sónia Araujo. Don’t forget to tune in to our live blog with Matt & Sebastian.  Ahead of the semi-final we asked you who is your favourite of the show and the results are as follows

• Sara Afonso – Contramão – 23%
• Karetus & Romeu Bairos – Saudade – 21%
• The Black Mamba – Love Is On My Side – 14%
• Nadine – Cheguei Aqui – 11%
• Valéria – Na Mais Profunda Saudade – 9%
• IAN – Mundo – 7%
• Miguel Marôco – Girassol – 5%
• Mema – Claro Como Água – 5%
• Fábia Maia – Dia Lindo – 4%
• Irma – Livros – 2%

Sara Afonso is the favorite of our readers ahead of tonight’s semi-final and she is the clear qualifier with 22% of the votes on second place are Karetus & Romeu Bairos with 21% while we can see The Black Mamba on third place with 14% of the votes the top 5 is rounded up by Nadine who got 11% of the votes and Valéria with 9% of your votes and those five acts are the ones which our readers would like to be in the final of Festival da Canção 2021 the one barely missing out according to our readers is IAN who got 7% of the votes and the acts which haven’t impressed the readers are Fábia Maia and Irma who recevied 3% and 2% of  the vote

Our poll is going to close at the end of tonight’s show, so you still have time to vote for the acts you think deserves to advance to the final, and try and change the result! Let us know which of these 10 acts is YOUR personal favorite by voting in our poll right here:

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