Croatia: Marko Bošnjak is the winner of Dora 2025 and will represent Croatia with Posion Cake

After two brilliant semi-finals, it is time to look at the Dora 2025 final line-up! The winner will have the privilege of representing Croatia in Basel, Switzerland and have a big responsibility following last year’s historic second place of Baby Lasagna.

The running order of the final was the following:

1. EoT – Bye, Bye, Bye
2. Natalli – Dom Si Srcu Mom
3. IVXN – Monopol
4. Filomena – Strong
5. Fenksta – Extra
6. Laurakojapjeva – NPC
7. Nipplepeople – Znak
8. Ogenj – Daj, Daj
9. Petar Brkljačić – Kraj
10. Matt Shaft – Welcome to the Circus
11. Marko Škugor – Šta Da Boga Molim Ja
12. Magazin – AaAaA
13. Marko Bošnjak – Poison Cake
14. Marko Tolja – Through the Dark
15. Lelek – Soul of My Soul
16. Luka Nižetić – Južina

Interval Act

In the first semi-final, Nina Badrić performed a medley of a dozen of her most successful and well-known songs. As a reminder, she represented Croatia in Eurovision 2012 with the song Nebo. In the second semi-final, Alessandra Mele from Norway performed her new single Language of Love, her 2023 entry Queen of Kings, and to everyone’s surprise, she sang Let 3’ Mama ŠČ! in flawless Croatian!

Everybody expected to see Baby Lasagna as an interval act on stage in the Grand Final. However, due to his European tour (currently in Latvia), his performance was pre-recorded and screened as an interval act. He performed songs Stress, Biggie Boom Boom, and of course, Rim Tim Tagi Dim.

The Voting Results

Just like the previous year, the Dora 2025 voting format consisted of the televote (50%) and the jury vote (50%) including both local and international musical experts. The juries from Finland, Armenia, Slovenia and Spain voted in Dora as an international jury.

After all jury votes, Marko Bošnjak was in the lead with 83 points, followed by Magazin with 62 points, and finishing the top three, Nipplepeople with 52 points. However, that was only half of the awarded points. Let’s check how the Croatian televote voted!

After the exciting and long televote sequence, this is the final table. Even though Ogenj convincingly won the televote, it was not enough to surpass Marko Bošnjak.

With that, it’s decided! Croatia has chosen its representative in Eurovision 2025! Ladies and gentlemen, it is Marko Bošnjak with the song Poison Cake.

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