Basel voters will decide Sunday on whether to spend tens of millions of dollars to host the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, with opponents decrying a "waste" of public funds for a "blasphemous" music performance.
If inhabitants in the northern Swiss region of Basel-Stadt block the nearly $40 million-credit needed to put on the annual TV extravaganza, "Eurovision will need to be scaled way back", Edi Estermann, head of communications for the 2025 edition, told AFP.