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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Country	Albania
National selection
Selection process	Junior Fest 2022
Selection date(s)	25 October 2022
Selected artist(s)	Kejtlin Gjata
Selected song	"Pakëz diell"
Selected songwriter(s)	Kejtlin Gjata Endri Muça
Finals performance
Final result	12th, 94 points
Albania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Albania competed in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022, which was held on 11 December 2022 in Yerevan, Armenia. Kejtlin Gjata was selected to represent the country with the song "Pakëz diell" through the national selection competition Junior Fest 2022, organised on 25 October 2022 by Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH).

Background

Prior to the 2022 contest, Albania had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest seven times since its first entry in 2012, only opting not to participate at the 2013, 2014 and 2020 contests. Albania has never won the contest, with their best result being in 2015, with the song "Dambaje" by Mishela Rapo achieving fifth place with a score of 93 points. In 2021, Anna Gjebrea represented Albania in Paris, France with the song "Stand By You". The country ended in 14th place out of 19 countries, achieving 84 points.

Before Junior Eurovision

Junior Fest 2022

The Albanian broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) revealed in July 2022 that the Albanian representative will be chosen via the national selection competition Junior Fest 2022. Interested artists from Albania and Kosovo were able to send in their applications, starting from 20 July 2022 until 5 September 2022, with only final versions of their entries being accepted. The 20 participating acts for the final, which was broadcast on 25 October 2022 on 18:00 CET but filmed at an unknown time in the Gjon Simoni Hall in Tirana, were revealed on 28 September 2022. Three acts previously shortlisted did not appear during the final: Ajlis Disha with the song "Motrat shoqe", Sibora Teqja with the song "Ne jemi paqja që sundon në botë" and Viola Gjyzeli with the song "Afrika". Gjyzeli went on to represent Albania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song "Bota ime". The winner was selected solely by a jury panel consisting of Kejsi Tola (Albanian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009), Efi Gjika (Albanian representative in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018) and Anna Gjebrea (Albanian representative in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021). Gjebrea also performed her new single "Throwback" as the interval act.

At Junior Eurovision

After the opening ceremony, which took place on 5 December 2022, it was announced that Albania would perform seventh on 11 December 2022, following France and preceding Georgia.

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 9 December 2022 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on 11 December at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for three songs. They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Points awarded to Albania Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points  France 7 points  Ireland  Malta 6 points  Kazakhstan  Poland 5 points  Serbia 4 points  Georgia  United Kingdom 3 points  Italy 2 points 1 point  Portugal Albania received 43 points from the online vote.

Points awarded by Albania Score Country 12 points  Italy 10 points  France 8 points  Poland 7 points  Netherlands 6 points  United Kingdom 5 points  Armenia 4 points  Spain 3 points  Ukraine 2 points  Georgia 1 point  Malta

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Albania

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Netherlands	13	11	1	12	2	4	7
02	Poland	14	12	2	7	1	3	8
03	Kazakhstan	12	8	13	15	5	13
04	Malta	11	13	10	5	6	10	1
05	Italy	1	1	14	1	4	1	12
06	France	3	4	3	3	3	2	10
07	Albania
08	Georgia	10	7	15	4	7	9	2
09	Ireland	7	9	5	13	13	11
10	North Macedonia	8	14	7	10	15	15
11	Spain	2	10	4	9	12	7	4
12	United Kingdom	6	5	9	2	14	5	6
13	Portugal	15	6	6	14	8	12
14	Serbia	9	15	8	11	9	14
15	Armenia	4	3	11	6	11	6	5
16	Ukraine	5	2	12	8	10	8	3

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