Another Eurovision Saturday evening ended with Portugal picking seven songs from a starting field of ten to advance to the Festival da Canção 2023.
The plan had been that the first five qualifiers would be decided by a 50/50 split between votes from an RTP jury and public televoting; where both streams of voting assigned points from 1–8, 10 and 12 based on ranking. The sixth qualifier (and therefore the runt of the litter) was to be determined by a second round of public televoting from the remaining entries.
A ‘technical issue’ with one of the televoting numbers saw RTP decide to send through six rather than five and give a ‘thanks for coming’ place to Neon Soho.
Results, you say, why of course …
| Draw | Artist | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moyah | "Too Much Sauce" | Out |
| 2 | Bolha | "Sonhos de liberdade" | Out |
| 3 | April Ivy | "Modo voo" | Out |
| 4 | Churky | "Encruzilhada" | Qualified |
| 5 | Cláudia Pascoal | "Nasci Maria" | Qualified |
| 6 | SAL | "Viver" | Qualified |
| 7 | Mimicat | "Ai coração" | Qualified |
| 8 | You Can't Win, Charlie Brown | "Contraste mudo" | Qualified |
| 9 | Neon Soho | "Endless World" | Qualified |
| 10 | Esse Povo | "Sapatos de cimento" | Qualified |