Contests with public voting in January in Greece: dates and organisers
Among contests in January in Greece, the reports name one with public voting: the 2025 Greek Eurovision national final, held on 30 January 2025. Its public vote carried half of the result, and a national and an international jury carried the other half. The reports give no voting window, closing date or announcement date for it.
Rechecked on 22 October 2026.
One held day in January, and no voting window in the reports
The reports place one contest with public voting in January in Greece: the 2025 Greek Eurovision national final. Its date is the only January date in the reports, and it is the day the final was held, not a voting window. Two accounts give the place. One names the Christmas Theater, and the other says the final was held in Galatsi.
A held date answers a different question from the one a voter asks. A voter wants to know when the vote opened and when it closed, and the 2025 reports give only the day the final took place. A reader planning an entry from this record is planning around an event day, with no published window to plan around.
The distinction matters for January timing. Any other January contest with public voting in Greece needs its own window, and the reports supply none beyond this final. Deadlines for January contests in Greece cannot be read from one event date, so the page offers one data point here, not a calendar.
- The 2025 Greek Eurovision national final was held on 30 January 2025.
- The final's public vote carried half of the result.
- The other half went to a national and an international jury.
- One account places the final at the Christmas Theater, another in Galatsi.
- The reports give no voting window for the 2025 final.
Half the result went to the public and half to two juries
The split is the most specific rule the reports state. A public vote carried half of the 2025 final's result, and the remaining half went to juries. The two juries were a Greek national jury and an international jury, and the reports give them equal weight. Equal weight is the only jury rule the reports state.
The weighting explains what a public vote can do in such a final. Half of the outcome was settled by counted public votes, and half was settled by panels whose members the reports do not name. A January contest with a jury share is therefore not comparable with one decided by votes alone, unless that share is stated.
The two weights come from a single event, so no pattern across January contests can be drawn from them. The reports do not say whether the weights were fixed in advance or set for 2025 only. A reader who wants the rule for another year has to find that year's own account.
- A public vote carried half of the 2025 final's result.
- A Greek jury and an international jury each carried a quarter of the result.
- The reports give the jury weights but name no jury member.
- The weights are stated for the 2025 final only.
- No other January contest in Greece carries a stated weight in the reports.
The reports are credited to ERT, and no organiser is named in them
The source line credits both Eurovision accounts to ERT, and the two Greek outlets Ta Nea and CNN Greece carried them. Those are the publisher and the sites where the accounts were read, and neither outlet is named as the organiser of the final. A reader who wants to know who ran the 2025 final has to look elsewhere.
A publisher's credit is not the same as a named organiser. The reports say who published the story and do not say who ran the final, who set its rules or who counted the public vote. That gap matters for timing, because the reports cannot say who announced any voting window.
The Newmoney item is the only other publisher in the reports, and it covers a different subject. It concerns online reviews rather than contests, and it is cited below for its figure only, not as a description of any contest. Naming it here keeps its source visible.
- The source line credits both Eurovision accounts to ERT.
- Ta Nea and CNN Greece carried the two Eurovision accounts.
- The reports name no organiser of the 2025 final.
- The reports do not say who counted the public vote.
- Newmoney reported the review figure, citing a 2023 survey.
The reports give one held day and no voting windows
The only date in the reports is 30 January 2025, and both Eurovision accounts give it as the day the final was held. That is the day of an event, which is a different fact from the day voting started or ended. A calendar built on that one date describes an event, not a voting period.
Neither account mentions a voting opening, a closing time or a count date. The 2025 reports stop at the event itself, so anything about when the public vote ran has to come from a source the reports do not include. They also give no separate date for announcing the result.
Duration and entry timing are therefore open. The reports state no length for a public vote, and they say nothing about how far ahead an entrant had to prepare for a January final. Any answer on those points needs a source the reports do not provide, and none is supplied here.
- Both Eurovision accounts give 30 January 2025 as the day the final was held.
- The reports give no voting opening or closing time.
- No separate result date appears in the reports.
- The reports state no length for the public vote.
- The reports say nothing on when entries had to be ready.
Fake votes and online counts: the one figure is about reviews
The reports say nothing about fake votes in the 2025 final. The only figure about unreliable online content comes from another source: Newmoney, citing a 2023 survey, reported on 8 January 2024 that up to 40 per cent of online reviews are considered unreliable. Reviews are not contest votes, so that figure cannot be carried over to a public vote.
A reader asking whether a public vote in a Greek January contest can be trusted will find no check described in the reports. The final's public vote is described only as half of the result. The reports say nothing on how it was verified, de-duplicated or moderated, and they name no body that did any of those things.
Disqualification is not described either. The reports say nothing on which entries a breach of the rules removes, and they cite no platform rule for public votes. A reader who wants the disqualification clauses of the 2025 final has to ask for its rulebook, which the reports do not reproduce.
- The reports describe no check on the 2025 final's public vote.
- The one figure on unreliable online content concerns reviews, not votes.
- Newmoney reported that figure on 8 January 2024.
- The reports say nothing on which entries a breach removes.
- No Greek rule on contests or public votes appears in the reports.
Rules that apply
The reports cite no Greek law on contests or public votes, so this page takes no legal position on whether such a vote is lawful in Greece. Two rules appear in the reports: the public vote carried half of the 2025 final's result, and the other half went to juries weighted equally. The reports do not say who set the voting window or where the rules were published. A reader who needs the rulebook for a given January contest has to find that contest's own published terms. Whether a public vote fits a platform's promotion terms is a question the reports leave open.
What we decline
No January contest in Greece is listed beyond the 2025 national final, because the reports date no other. The page cannot give voting windows, closing dates, result dates or entry deadlines for any contest, and it cannot name the organiser of the final. It does not treat ERT's credit as an organiser's name, and it quotes no platform promotion rule. The reports were checked on 22 October 2026, and the three accounts were reviewed against their sources.
Questions and answers
The reports name one: the 2025 Greek Eurovision national final, held on 30 January 2025. A public vote carried half of its result, with the other half going to a national and an international jury. The reports show no voting window that opened in January, so no other January contest can be listed from them.
The reports give no close date for any contest with public voting in January in Greece. The 2025 final is the one event they date, and it is dated as the day the event took place. A voting close would have to come from a source the reports do not include.
The reports state no length for any public vote in Greece. The 2025 final's vote is described only as half of its result, and the reports give no opening or closing time for it. No duration can be stated from them.
The reports give no separate date for announcing winners after a January vote in Greece. The one event they date, the 2025 national final, was held on 30 January 2025, and that date is the event rather than an announcement. Any announcement date is not stated in the material.
The reports state no entry deadline for any January contest in Greece, so no lead time can be given from them. They describe no entry timing for the 2025 final either. The page does not estimate one.
Preparation time is not in the reports, so this page gives no figure for it. The 2025 final is dated, but its entry timing is not stated. A reader who needs that period should ask the organiser, since the reports name none.