Basel voters on Sunday overwhelmingly approved the city putting up nearly $40 million towards hosting next year's Eurovision Song Contest, meaning the glitzy annual TV extravaganza will go ahead with its full customary pomp.
In Swiss referendums, most voters cast their ballots in advance by post, and after the polling stations closed at noon (1100 GMT), intermediate results showed 66.4 percent of voters in the northern city backed putting taxpayers' cash into staging Eurovision 2025.
