In the last few minutes, the last national final of the 2024 season came to a close, and, after a 50/50 vote between Portugal’s regional juries and a public vote, it was decided that Iolanda will represent the Iberian nation in May after winning Festival da Canção with the song Grito.

The combined final result went as follows:

1.  Iolanda – Grito (22pts)
2.  João Borsch – …Pelas Costuras (18pts)
3.  Leo Middea – Doce Mistério (18pts)
4.  Silk Nobre – Change (12pts)
5.  Rita Rocha – Pontos Finais (11pts)
6.  Buba Espinho – O Farol (10pts)
7.  Noble – Memory (7pts)
8.  Rita Onofre – Criatura (5pts)
9.  Perpétua – Bem Longe Daqui (4pts)
10.  Nena – Teorias da Conspiração (4pts)
11.  No Maka feat. Ana Maria – Aceitar (3pts)
12.  Cristina Clara – Primavera (2pts)

Portugal will be hoping to keep up their highly successful qualification record at Eurovision, which, since hosting in 2018, has seen them reach the final on 3 out of 4 occasions. Earlier, Maria Dias of RTP’s press team commented that Portugal’s aim was to qualify, as that’s when “our work is done”.

FDC celebrated the 70th anniversary of it first ever edition this year, and the show included a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, which brought down the Salazar dictatorship and was started by 1974’s FDC winning song, A Depois do Adeus by Paulo de Carvalho. The final took place at Luis Andrade studio at the RTP building in Lisbon, but hopes of bringing it to a larger arena in the future are still strong.

You can watch the winning performance HERE:

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