Swedish expert panel: Sweden will win and Cyprus come second

The panel of 5 Swedish experts have now been voting on the songs competing in the second semi-final of the 2012 plus the six finalists. According to their taste it will be a battle between Sweden, Cyprus, Estonia, Russia and Spain. 

Over a series of 4 programmes the 5 Swedish experts have been awarding points in the style of 0 to 5 to each of the 42 participating songs. You can read more about the experts in our article about their votes for the songs in the first semi-final.

Here is their points for the second semi-final plus the six automatically qualified finalists: 

Country:  Lena:  Måns:  Gina:  Lisette:  Thomas:  Total: 
Serbia  3  3  4  3  3  16 
FYR Macedonia  1  1  3  1  4  10 
The Netherlands  3  0  2  4  1  10 
Malta  2  1  3  3  1  11 
Belarus  3  2  5  1  1  12 
Portugal  3  0  2  2  2  9 
Ukraine  4  3  2  4  3  16 
Bulgaria  2  2  3  1  4  12 
Slovenia  0  2  2  1  3  8 
Croatia  0  4  0  2  3  9 
Sweden  5  5  5  5  5  25 
Georgia  1  1  0  0  0  2 
Turkey  1  0  3  3  5  12 
Estonia  3  5  3  4  5  20 
Slovakia  3  2  3  3  5  16 
Norway  3  2  2  3  2  12 
Bosnia & Herzegovina  0  0  0  1  3  4 
Lithuania  0  2  1  1  0  4 
United Kingdom  1  3  5  4  4  17 
France  2  4  1  3  4  14 
Italy  3  2  4  5  3  17 
Azerbaijan  4  2  3  2  2  13 
Spain  1  5  4  4  5  19 
Germany  2  3  5  4  3  17 

Through the series the five experts plus host Christer Björkman also got the chance to play their own Eurovision Song Contest favourites: 


Thomas Lundin
: Finland 1966, Croatia 1998 and finally Germany 1975.  


Lisette Pagler
: Latvia 2000, Sweden 1990 and finally Ireland 1987. 


Gina Dirawi
: Serbia 2007, Russia 2008 and finally Serbia 2010. 


Måns Zelmerlöw
: Sweden 1995, Ukraine 2007 and finally Romania 2006.
 

Lena Philipsson
: Turkey 1985, The Netherlands 1974 and finally Israel 1979. 

Christer Björkman
: Serbia & Montenegro 2004, France 1977 and finally Greece 2005.
Source: EuroVisionary
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