After some articles were published saying that Portugal was one of the countries applying to organise next year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which was 'won' by Cyprus, the head of the Portuguese delegation told oikotimes.com this afternoon that RTP ''didn’t apply to organise the contest, so those articles are not correct''.

José Poiares confessed that he was ''surprised'' with some newspaper and website articles because ''we (RTP) never officially applied to host the event. The only thing we did was to ask the EBU's supervisor, Mr Svante Stockselius, the conditions to host the contest, just as many other countries did it too. Nothing more!'

And would RTP consider hosting Junior Eurovision in Portugal? José Poiares likes the idea, but said ''it’s not yet known if we'll apply to host it next year or not''.

UPDATE
The information on Portuguese bid for Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was mentioned on the CyBC press release issued last week. You can read the article in English as well as the press release itself in English.

THE ARTICLE ON THE PRESS RELEASE
http://www.oikotimes.com/v2/index.php?file=articles&id=392

THE PRESS RELEASE IN GREEK
http://eurovision-cyprus.ueuo.com/articles/subsite/article_04.htm